Example sentences of "as [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not give the hon. Gentleman that figure at the moment , but it is essential that we use NHS buildings as effectively as we can . |
| 2 | The Scottish National Party deputy leader , Allan Macartney , said that Highlands and Islands needs had been accentuated by recent job losses , and forecast : ‘ The UK will never press our case for regional funding as effectively as we could . |
| 3 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 4 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |
| 5 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 6 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 7 | This misconception about the requirements of effective verbal communication can have important consequences in that young children may not use their linguistic skills as effectively as they might either as speakers or as listeners . |
| 8 | As well as fighting for more money , her task was to ensure that ‘ every last pound ’ was spent as effectively as it could be . |
| 9 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 10 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
| 11 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 13 | Putting it as politely as he can , Mr Tyson said the whole affair ‘ encouraged ’ him to return to paid employment . |
| 14 | Mr Edgar was as surprised as I was , but welcomed Heathcliff as politely as he could . |
| 15 | It was the difference between a vast public enterprise , and a local farmer making a living as economically as he could . |
| 16 | El-Jorr felt the loss as keenly as he would have mourned his cowboy boots or his 4 × 4 Chevy with the Texas plates — the card was a basic prop of his all-American image . |
| 17 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Not as keenly as I feel your jealousy , pretty one , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ My name 's Erskine Morris , ’ said the man , vanishing the cigarettes as deftly as he had produced them , and continuing to write as he spoke . |
| 20 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 21 | The initial deleterious effects of cost accounting struck the press as badly as they upset the railways , education , local Soviet administration , and trade . |
| 22 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 23 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 24 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 25 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 26 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 27 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 28 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 29 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 30 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |