Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 2 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 3 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 4 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 5 | This description fits a young fish of one variation , but the colours and patterning change somewhat as the fish matures . |
| 6 | The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago . |
| 7 | Furthermore as the matrix becomes less sparse the problems associated with storage increase . |
| 8 | It is a mere auxiliary verb , a syntactical instrument enabling us to specify what philosophers sometimes used to call the " essence " or " quiddity " of a thing ; the verb esse , to be , acting in such cases literally as a pointer towards essentia . |
| 9 | It is very easy if you like the day before literally as the minister said , the day before for them to make their change as to where the cut off point comes . |
| 10 | We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker . |
| 11 | Hector , picking at his food , sat up suddenly as the rushes moved gently under her feet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Leaning forward , his body stiffened suddenly as the bright orange float took a dive and disappeared from view . |
| 14 | The torch beam jerked suddenly as the Baronne moved her hand in an irritable gesture of negation . |
| 15 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 16 | He sat down suddenly as the truck bounced off the bank again . |
| 17 | She lifted her face to his , then jumped suddenly as the telephone sounded . |
| 18 | Far from answering immediately with a negative or affirmative answer to his queries , the Blackrag Madonna puts her ruined head on one side , much as a girl of great beauty might do , and asks him questions in return . |
| 19 | This will increase the suction effect slightly and can make water move upwards , much as a lamp wick draws up oil to replace that being burned . |
| 20 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 23 | He was opening and shutting his mouth and licking his lips , much as a cat does when something disgusts it . |
| 24 | Secondly , we are at a critical juncture , much as a seriously ill person may reach a ‘ turning point at which the patient either begins to improve or sinks into a fatal decline ’ . |
| 25 | He turned his face towards the altar end of the chapel , much as a bridegroom might turn his head towards his bride . |
| 26 | The writer said , in effect , " Here is my Horace " , and the reader responded , in effect , " This is/is not the Horace that I know " , appraising the performance from the heart as well as the mind , much as a listener might appraise the rendering of a familiar musical work . |
| 27 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If a problem becomes too complex , or too costly in this context , it is simply declared ‘ off budget ’ , much as the Bush administration declared the $100bn bailout of the savings and loan industry ‘ off budget ’ . |
| 30 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |