Example sentences of "be [adv] as [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 2 | This means that there will be brain systems present in both rats and humans that can be just as easily studied in the former as in the latter . |
| 3 | The following comment could be just as easily applied to the 1980s as to earlier this century . |
| 4 | Criticisms contained in various Auditor-General 's reports could be just as easily directed at the British public sector . |
| 5 | but things can be just as well explained by the usual list of human follies that bankers are prone to . |
| 6 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 7 | The capital stock will be just as fully utilized at point B as at point A , but fewer men will be required to operate the fixed number of machines . |
| 8 | It was almost invariably the same : halfway through any case Morse would be off on some improbable and complicated line of thought which would be just as readily abandoned as soon as a few more facts emerged . |