Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landaulet jolted suddenly as the Annamese driver trod on the brake , and Joseph , who was sitting directly behind him , heard Jacques Devraux curse softly under his breath . |
| 2 | Leaning forward , his body stiffened suddenly as the bright orange float took a dive and disappeared from view . |
| 3 | Each haustorium penetrates the host tissue and through this ‘ living bridge ’ draws water and nutrients , much as a mammalian fetus draws its nourishment from the placental connections embedded in the wall of the womb . |
| 4 | ‘ One Down ’ treads the fine line between spooky moderne dance and proper fund , much as the young Was ( Not Was ) used to . |
| 5 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 6 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 7 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 8 | Erasmus Darwin , grandfather of Charles , describes dodders in verse as ‘ harlot-nymphs ’ which crush their prey in their coils much as the mythological serpents crushed Laocoon and his sons , while Indian myths grant unlimited wealth and the power of invisibility to those who find the roots of dodder . |
| 9 | To my surprise , its emptiness moved me , much as the empty highchair at our family table once moved the young James Bishop . |
| 10 | It differs from naive breadth first search , much as the naive version of the crates problem differs from the real version . |
| 11 | Essentially , any attested forms that can be characterized as ‘ vulgar ’ or ‘ dialectal ’ are rejected , much as the apocryphal books of the Bible are rejected . |
| 12 | Childhood thus became a condition to be explored and valued for its own sake , much as the French ‘ philosophes ’ had formerly thought to examine and extol ‘ natural man ’ in his savage state . |
| 13 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 14 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
| 15 | Even Conservative Governments could be persuaded of the wisdom of this approach since , so long as no powerful state threatened the status quo , support for the League was the cheapest way of maintaining the Empire . |
| 16 | So long as no viable cause for continental drift could be demonstrated , however , belief in it remained an act of faith . |
| 17 | The right of free speech is one which it is for the public interest that individuals should possess , and , indeed , that they should exercise without impediment , so long as no wrongful act is done . |
| 18 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 19 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 20 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 22 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 23 | Vauxhall 's Nova 1.5TD , for instance , is a fast , frugal hatchback with an Isuzu turbodiesel which when properly maintained should last as long as a naturally-aspirated engine . |
| 24 | The average working week of housewiv es in this sample is seventy-seven hours — almost twice as long as an industrial working week of forty hours . |
| 25 | The Netherlands allows the centre to carry on supporting , preparatory or auxiliary activities , which is more flexible , at least in principle , and the centre can take on commercial risks so long as an increased mark-up is agreed . |
| 26 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 27 | After a 16-year ban , shops will now be allowed to display English ( or Italian or other language ) signs outside , so long as an accompanying French sign is ‘ markedly predominant ’ — that is , twice as big . |
| 28 | This definition encompasses the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency : current welfare losses may be acceptable , if the market structure or conduct which gives rise to the losses will also generate efficiencies in the long run , so long as the prospective benefits are not too delayed in realization and the social discount rate is not too high . |
| 29 | Before he left Persia in February 1921 , Ironside told Reza Khan that the British would not oppose his seizing power so long as the reigning Qajar Shah was not actually deposed . |
| 30 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |