Example sentences of "[adv] as [indef pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry about the bang , ’ she called , much as someone might apologise for slamming a car door too loudly , and she started to walk towards him . |
| 7 | One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing . |
| 8 | There has been no love lost between Scots and English at big sporting occasions for as long as one can remember , but it seems that England 's rugby aficionados find it hard to forgive Scotland for that Grand Slam defeat in 1990 . |
| 9 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 10 | It 's a curious thing but fans of all persuasions , even in the stubborn North , seem to have a soft spot for Spurs — maybe because , for as long as anyone can remember , they have tried to play the game . |
| 11 | The Halflings have lived in rural areas of the Empire for as long as anyone can remember , but it was not until the year 1010 that they were granted the lands around the upper Aver as their permanent home . |
| 12 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 13 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 14 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 15 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 16 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 17 | For as long as anyone could remember the council had been overwhelmingly Labour , and all the MPs came from the ranks of the party . |
| 18 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 19 | And they say he will fashion any spell so long as someone will pay him enough . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll spell it out for you , ’ he said as gently as one would to a young child . |
| 21 | The torque at the shoulder depends a lot on the angle at the elbow , and so as one would expect , learning to control the shoulder took longest . |
| 22 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 23 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 24 | The stone ( not a marble , but some kind of limestone ) looked just as one would expect after an operation to remove dirt and accumulated grime , and I do not see why this aspect of the work should give rise to so much concern . |
| 25 | The intermittency route to chaos was also inferred , with pure xenon in the laser tube , from a sequence in which a single frequency ( with its harmonics ) progressively broadened on increasing the discharge current , just as one would expect for increasingly frequent bursts of noise against a background of steady oscillation . |
| 26 | Meaning lies in the mind , beyond words — just as one may search for a word to express one 's meaning . |
| 27 | Notches on tallies were an early way of scoring in cricket matches , and people are still said to ‘ notch up ’ a good score , just as one can still hear a commentator say that a free-scoring batsman is ‘ in good nick ’ . |
| 28 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 29 | One can learn the techniques of counselling just as one can learn to sing or to run but one will still be in a different league from those who were born with these skills . |
| 30 | Just as one can know whether one is short or tall only by comparing oneself with others , so one can know whether one 's own political system is " short " or " tall " only by putting it alongside other systems and noting the differences . |