Example sentences of "as [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I threaten nothing , but sit on my branch , attentive as any other creature ; as slowly the forest reveals itself in the cry of a bird , the crash of a branch , the rustle of leaves as something moves through the forest litter ; the incessant percussive music of insects . |
| 2 | Just as importantly the voltage drop across these resistors , in conjunction with the voltage drop across resistor R3 set the output stage into class-A operation . |
| 3 | To sum up , none of the four theories discussed above seem capable of providing a satisfactory clarification of the conditions of intelligibility of referring to something as numerically the same . |
| 4 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 5 | But when he took just as long the " boy " was back on call . |
| 6 | Ivor Stanbrook , MP for Orpington , who chairs the Conservative backbench constitutional affairs committee and is an Anglican , said : ‘ The ills of society are as much the responsibility of the Church as of political parties . |
| 7 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 8 | They were as much the victims of the leaking of the report as ministers . |
| 9 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of his rule is that within a generation of his death , he was as much the subject of legend as of factual history . |
| 11 | Arthur Scargill is just as much the devil incarnate to the true blue supporter now as he was in the front line at Orgreave Colliery . |
| 12 | Holding my back straight and clutching the plaited strings that had once been reins , I felt as intrepid as Stark , as hardened as Lawrence , as much the explorer as Burckhardt . |
| 13 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 14 | Beveridge 's four social evils of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance must remain as much the primary targets of any party of the left today as when he first wrote about them half a century ago . |
| 15 | Coopers deplores what has occurred and was as much the victim as everyone else ’ . |
| 16 | Where all these views would concur is in saying that on the track Niki was as much the natural successor to Jackie Stewart as Alain Prost is the natural successor to Lauda . |
| 17 | However , the survival of certain types of artefact is as much the result of various factors prior to burial as to post-depositional processes . |
| 18 | Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion . |
| 19 | It appears that the RFU is as much the villain of the piece as Cotton Traders , the Fran Cotton and Steve Smith-owned kit company , whose World Cup shirt was dropped by the RFU before the Five Nations despite the fact that the company had a cast-iron contract that covered the tournament . |
| 20 | The Crimean War was as much the product of Nicholas 's own judgement — or misjudgement — as of any irresistible pressure upon him . |
| 21 | But in the twelfth century , the house of Alsace could afford the high costs of their expeditions — Thierry went to Jerusalem four times , Philip twice — and the counts ' repeated absences in fact promoted administrative reform ; the baillis and the Grote Bref were as much the products of crusading as the English and Norman judicial system and exchequers were the product of the king-duke 's divided attentions . |
| 22 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 23 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 24 | That she did so then may have been as much the consequence of events as of advice . |
| 25 | This was as much the true " meaning " of Oxford as was any other aspect of the programme of extension . |
| 26 | By the autumn of 1968 , revolutionary politics were becoming as much the stuff of Oxford parties as the riffs of Jimi Hendrix . |
| 27 | Clear and unambiguous statements made by Ministers in Parliament are as much the background to the enactment of legislation as white papers and Parliamentary reports . |
| 28 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 29 | The situation is further complicated by the fact that improvements in health are as much the result of better diet , cleaner air , more sanitary conditions , etc. , as of the health services . |
| 30 | Their different paths can seem as much the result of luck , accident or opportunity as any capacity to distinguish between right and wrong . |