Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 2 | But when you 're a £2.5m striker who 's living up to his price-tag as spectacularly as he has done , there are always going to be people out to bring you down a peg or two . |
| 3 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 4 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 5 | On 4 July 1638 Alured got into serious trouble with the court for saying of the Scots that ‘ they did well ’ in opposing the king and he hoped ‘ they would reform this land by a parliament as well as they have done theirs already ’ . |
| 6 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 7 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 8 | By the second year there was considerable disappointment that they had not developed the purchasing role as far as they had hoped . |
| 9 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 10 | The stunned children filed out of the church as quietly as they had filed in . |
| 11 | Now he was slipping away from life as uncomplainingly as he had lived it . |
| 12 | Nobody could blame her for taking life as seriously as she 'd had to , but the way to some kind of peace and personal balance would surely lie in the opportunity to stop running and relax a little . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 15 | There 's serious talking to be done this week , especially is it now seems you are n't going to be able to escape an intense situation as quickly as you 'd hoped . |
| 16 | It is hoped that members will continue to support the Trust as generously as they have done in the past , in the knowledge that by responding to information mailed to them they are making a contribution to the Trust 's work . |
| 17 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 18 | 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 . ] . |