Example sentences of "[adv] readily as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 2 | If Lindsay had notes — well tough — it 's because he does n't believe as readily as I do what people say to me . |
| 3 | It is as though Edward , in 1896 , had abandoned the career ‘ as Philip ’ which Noble had made smooth fur him as readily as , seventeen years later , he allowed the fictional Philip to die . |
| 4 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 5 | Those that received pre-exposure and conditioning in the same context acquired the CR slowly ( i.e. showed latent inhibition ) ; those that experienced a change of context from exposure to conditioning learned as readily as the control subjects . |
| 6 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 7 | Robbe-Grillet showed himself to be willing to embrace this psychological/subjectivist mode of analysis as readily as he had previously accepted Roland Barthes 's imprimatur as the model chosiste . |
| 8 | In the 1950s , the decade on which this analysis is focused , timetables could have been translated from one county grammar school to another almost as readily as architects ' plans . |
| 9 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 10 | Blackbirds , wrens and some others will mock a ferret just as readily as they mock any other predator . |
| 11 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 12 | In addition , it is not clear that pesticides will travel through the unsaturated zone as readily as nitrate does — they may , for example , be adsorbed by clays . |
| 13 | Most countries accept dollars as readily as their own currency . |
| 14 | That this is so comes out in the way we say , for example , ‘ There is a pain in my foot ’ as readily as ‘ I feel a pain in my foot ’ . |
| 15 | There is , it seems , absolutely no reason why Loxodonta africana should not be tamed and trained as readily as Elephas maximus . |
| 16 | Mr Outcalt believes that Nordstrom 's shoppers — typically bright , successful types who seem to spend nearly every waking hour with cellular telephones , laptop computers and videos — will accept Nordstrom-style television shopping as readily as they now use bank debit cards to buy their groceries . |
| 17 | The keen demand made patronage a double-edged weapon for the politician , who could find himself making enemies as readily as friends unless he proceeded with the utmost caution in everything he attempted . |
| 18 | It can be regarded as private ownership at least as readily as it can public ownership . |
| 19 | If these articles are to be useful then I think it is important that experienced practitioners , such as myself , should share a monumental cock-up as readily as the creative triumphs . |
| 20 | He barred papal providees as readily as he warned a provincial council off royal interests ; yet he acquiesced in the papal choice of primates and presided over three remarkable decades of churchcrown cooperation in the arrest of excommunicates . |
| 21 | This division of the space available allowed for the cultivation of their different tastes : whereas Minton listened to Billie Holiday as readily as Bach , Vaughan 's interests were more purely high-brow . |
| 22 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |
| 23 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 24 | The educated Indian businessman will consult an astrologer as readily as the illiterate villager ; and no occasion , except perhaps the birth of a child , necessitates the consulting of astrologers quite so urgently as a marriage . |
| 25 | Thirdly , if the treatment is available currently , upon clinical decision , under the national health service , should it not be available to patients in north Devon as readily as it is available to patients in London ? |
| 26 | Just as readily as by gr er green field sites . |