Example sentences of "[adv] frequently as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headship is only a tool and one that is used sensitively and less frequently as the goal of oneness nears ( although there are always some who are more enamoured with the tools than the results ) . |
| 2 | They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably . |
| 3 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 4 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 5 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
| 6 | We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage . |
| 7 | Wearing a different one every time she went out would be only normal , particularly since a sari does not have to be washed as frequently as a dress because it is not worn next to the skin . |
| 8 | This does not mean that big companies can not fail as frequently as small companies . |
| 9 | In many instances they closely resemble Protestant churches built in America except that there stone was used as frequently as brick . |
| 10 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 11 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 12 | Although points were accrued only from staged ‘ specials ’ — and not from the mind and backside-numbing slogs in between — neither mode was immune from punctures , broken suspension arms or getting lost while the conditions took their toll on the spirit and sprocket alike , tempers fraying as frequently as fan-belts . |
| 13 | Why , then , are pedigree dogs seen as frequently as mongrels in rescue homes ? |
| 14 | Consequently , Type 2 patients do not need to assess control quite as frequently as the Type I patients once good glycaemic control has been achieved . |
| 15 | The great benefit of the two-stroke is that , at any given engine speed , it fires twice as frequently as a four-stroke with the same number of cylinders . |
| 16 | ‘ Unfortunately training budgets are very tight at the moment and therefore staff are not sent to external courses as frequently as would be desirable ’ … |
| 17 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |
| 18 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 19 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 20 | The only way to conquer a fear is to face it , and to do so as frequently as possible . |
| 21 | I was embarrassed — a state of mind which , you might have observed , transpires in the psyche of Oliver Russell about as frequently as the passage of Halley 's Comet . |
| 22 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 23 | When the patient is fit enough these measures are best performed as frequently as every 12 minutes . |
| 24 | He gets it checked as frequently as he checks the bottom line . |
| 25 | The copula occurs as frequently as twelve times ( out of sixty-five main verbs ) , and other categories of verb which are prominent include those denoting attitudes ( hesitated , liked , treating , etc ) , cognitions ( known , supposed , reflected , etc ) , speech acts ( speak , repeated , address , invited , etc ) , and perceptions ( hear , looked , appear , etc ) . |
| 26 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 27 | ‘ Few principles of statutory interpretation are applied as frequently as the presumption against alterations in the common law . |
| 28 | Not used as frequently as medium . |
| 29 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 30 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |