Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
| 2 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 3 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 4 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 5 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 6 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 7 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 8 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 9 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 10 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
| 11 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 12 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 13 | Great as far as it goes , but where are the mighty affirmations of life that soul once was ? |
| 14 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 15 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 16 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 17 | This was , of course , true as far as it went . |
| 18 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 20 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 21 | The plant died off almost as quickly as it grew . |
| 22 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 23 | Below right : Brabham BT55 used lie-flat BMW turbo and was knee-high to a grasshopper , but was never half as fast as it looked |