Example sentences of "[adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This description fits a young fish of one variation , but the colours and patterning change somewhat as the fish matures . |
| 5 | Furthermore as the matrix becomes less sparse the problems associated with storage increase . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hector , picking at his food , sat up suddenly as the rushes moved gently under her feet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Leaning forward , his body stiffened suddenly as the bright orange float took a dive and disappeared from view . |
| 11 | The torch beam jerked suddenly as the Baronne moved her hand in an irritable gesture of negation . |
| 12 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 13 | He sat down suddenly as the truck bounced off the bank again . |
| 14 | She lifted her face to his , then jumped suddenly as the telephone sounded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 21 | I try to rise above such prejudices , much as the communicators rise above the prejudices of the C2s . |
| 22 | Much as the University of Oxford is understood by reference to a model of its operational system so may we approach the operations of ‘ mind ’ from this point of view . |
| 23 | It somehow ‘ lies beneath ’ them as another ‘ thing ’ , much as the clothes horse lies underneath the clothes . |
| 24 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 25 | It implies that there is a physical boundary to the universe , and that God exists ‘ outside ’ it much as the President of France exists . |
| 26 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 27 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 28 | They also , in turn , completely dominated their homeland , much as the black-and-whites do today . |
| 29 | Much as the ‘ restaurant-program ’ has to be told about conventional behaviour in restaurants , so the ‘ newspaper-reader ’ has to be told about road-accidents , earthquakes , hijackings , and the like . |
| 30 | 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 . |