Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Tongs can be used just as effectively but remember that the larger the barrel , the bigger the curl .
2 They also feel obligated to deal as effectively as possible with whatever problems these casual encounters throw up , such as people asking advice about a summons or other aspects of the law , or about some official form which they are having difficulty in completing , how to get rid of obstructions on the pavement outside their house , or traffic obstructions .
3 Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere .
4 The effect is psychedelic , dispersing consciousness as effectively as any pure din .
5 What is needed now is a new spirit of political leadership in Ireland , able to respond to the changing social mood as effectively as Charles Haughey 's government has responded since 1987 to the changing economy .
6 Perhaps this is why straight lines do not suggest movement along their length as effectively as slightly curved ones .
7 The policy paper of March 2 , A Safer Britain for Women , sets forth the core of Labour 's programme to interpose the state between men and women , artificially dividing them and their interests as effectively as , on a larger scale , it plans to prise apart the peoples of the United Kingdom .
8 As well as fighting for more money , her task was to ensure that ‘ every last pound ’ was spent as effectively as it could be .
9 His declared aim was economy and he endeavoured to make use of the natural contours as effectively as possible .
10 Memories of happy days on the hills never fade but can not be shared with others through the medium of the written word as effectively as colourful pictures .
11 And giant waves are indeed like alien presences , as big as the Death Star , erasing ships and sailors as effectively as Martian ray guns .
12 No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man .
13 However , this weaker bitumen trapped uraninite and radio-nuclides just as effectively as the surrounding harder material .
14 But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest .
15 TWO headache tablets and lots of water will relieve a hangover as effectively as expensive over-the-counter remedies , says a survey out today .
16 Making love , walking the dog or knocking a squash ball about will do the job as effectively as a stiff drink , and they are less likely to hasten your demise .
17 Individual heating appliances such as gas convectors can be controlled by thermostats and time switches just as effectively as a central heating system , and will obviously cost less to install .
18 Pearn returned from Simla in the early part of 1945 and it was decided that both he and I should stay with the Department , go with it when the civil government returned to Burma , and get it working as effectively as possible .
19 The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’
20 AI 's human rights education work aims to inform people of their rights so that they can defend them , and those of other people , as effectively as possible .
21 Recommendations for training visually handicapped pupils to use any sight that they have as effectively as possible should be given , as should training in the use of low vision aids ( magnifiers , etc. ) and special equipment ( closed circuit television ) and in techniques for personal independence and mobility if these are necessary .
22 Fear that the use of defective vision would make it deteriorate further has been replaced by positive encouragement and training to use even severely defective sight as effectively as possible in learning and in day-to-day living .
23 Evidence from ophthalmologists , especially Mann and Pirie ( 1946 ) , and observation of good practice by educational psychologists and teachers confirmed that this was not so , and that children with low levels of vision should be encouraged and trained to use their vision as effectively as possible and to enjoy using it .
24 V33 is a low-odour , solvent-free Total Treatment for Wood which has been introduced from France by Kent-based Liveron Waxes. this water-based treatment cures and prevents fungus and insect attacks as effectively as any other treatment on the market , but is much safer as it contains no Lindane , PCP or TBTO .
25 Dispel Greater Daemon will destroy the Daemon-room as effectively as accumulated damage .
26 In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes .
27 To ensure that this was accomplished as effectively as possible there should be positive discrimination in favour of those who have special needs .
28 Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either .
29 The first was a local need for accurate information about current welfare assistant practice to enable the resource to be provided as effectively as possible and also to identify good and inappropriate practice , and adopt or remedy these as necessary ; and to identify training needs .
30 More careful and critical studies reveal the all too well-known pattern of the failure of British workers to employ new techniques as effectively as their foreign counterparts , to both their own and the general loss [ Dore , 1973 ; Pratten , 1976b ] .
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