Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn walked forward into the brightly lit , ultra-modern kitchen as purposefully as she could manage and took the mug of steaming coffee he held out to her with shaking hands . |
| 2 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 3 | At lunchtime , when he read the note , he would always thank her as warmly as he could , but her mistake of taste was plainly defined in his face . |
| 4 | In Burke 's view , which was orthodox in his time , this was entirely as it should be . |
| 5 | Characters are cut-outs , mental events are banned as if the Bloomsbury tradition needed to be ruthlessly exorcised , and names like Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies explain character in boldly extra-realistic ways , much as they might have done in Bunyan 's Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 6 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 7 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 8 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 9 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 10 | Out of it she drew a little distaff , much as we would draw out a pair of knitting needles . |
| 11 | It is on this account that we talk of the baby 's right to life , much as we would of a normal adult . |
| 12 | We are showing a select number of works , much as we would at a major international fair such as the Biennale . |
| 13 | It is clear that the Central Wales Line still has much to offer , even with modern traction , much as we would all like to see BR allowing us the pleasure of an occasional steam run . |
| 14 | Much as we may complain about standards of some general practice in London — and rightly so — there is at least some system to seek to achieve geographic coverage by primary care doctors . |
| 15 | Much as we might like to , we ca n't turn the clock back on these fundamental changes , we have no choice but to proceed with all faith in the new and make it work . |
| 16 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 17 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 18 | Much as we should regret losing you , ’ he says again . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , much as we should like to leave this out , the taxman never seems to retire ! |
| 20 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |
| 21 | She was keeping her voice low , much as one might while singing a lullaby to the one wakeful soul in a house full of sleeping children . |
| 22 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 23 | The first is that while most of the fast movements are much as one might have surmised ( although the vite sections of the last movement of the Te Deum are notably faster than often performed ) , some of the slow movements are considerably slower than one usually hears them , suggesting a rather wider range of tempos in use in the early 18th century in France than that to which we are accustomed today . |
| 24 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 25 | Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question . |
| 26 | So , much as he would have liked to ride for Perthshire with his friends , in especial Mariot , he left them , to turn up Eskside , but promising to come to Doune before long . |
| 27 | With these developments beyond his mid-September 1838 positions , Darwin had reached the theory of natural selection much as he would publish it later . |
| 28 | Bartocci might be convinced of his conspiracy theory , but Zen just could n't take it seriously , much as he would have liked to . |
| 29 | He had found her — and he used the word much as he might of finding a particularly beautiful sea-washed stone — one late June afternoon the previous year . |
| 30 | ‘ Paint ? ’ he queried , as though it was an item he 'd never come across , much as he might have sounded if she 'd said she was going to buy a giraffe , she thought on a spurt of amusement . |