Example sentences of "[adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 2 | So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ . |
| 3 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 4 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 5 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 6 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 7 | This affirmed the right of citizens to a clean and healthy environment in regard to the quality of air and water , food and drinking water , protection against noise and contamination of soil , soil erosion and desertification , the preservation of fauna and flora and the natural heritage , and amenities in residential areas ; and a commitment to global environmental preservation , especially as regards the Antarctic , the ozone layer , and tropical forests . |
| 8 | A roughly similar pattern , especially as regards the rapid growth in business in the years before 1914 , can be seen everywhere : the unit of the Russian foreign ministry which duplicated papers concerned with relations with the European states , for example , trebled its output in 1893 – 1906 . |
| 9 | At the same time , corporatist arrangements break down as does the class character of political parties . |
| 10 | W what happened when things began to go down as regards the ships then ? |
| 11 | If a large number of As have been observed under a wide variety of conditions , and if all those observed As without exception possessed the property B , then all As have the property B. |
| 12 | If they do not return to the office or call in as arranged the supervisor should ensure that contact is made with that address to determine if the visit has been made and concluded . |
| 13 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 14 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
| 15 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |
| 16 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
| 17 | Within which , behind which , a multitude of lights lurked faintly , intrinsically bright lights filtered by obsidian and vitrodur so as to resemble a swarm of phosphorescent creatures seen mutedly afar in some great oceanic abysmal valley that was deep and very long and very wide … |
| 18 | This was perceived necessary so as to bolster the bargaining position of consumers . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 20 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
| 21 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
| 22 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 23 | Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large |
| 24 | At any given level of expenditure £n it may wish to optimise its " mix " of expenditure on the various promotional methods available to it , so as to maximise the level of sales to be obtained at the level of promotional expenditure £n . |
| 25 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 26 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
| 27 | With wealth distributed so as to give a highly distinctive social structure , the Craven District was quite unlike any other part of England . |
| 28 | The items were selected so as to give a quick overview of performance in relation to a range of topics including number concepts , measures , spatial concepts , algebra , graphs and number patterns . |
| 29 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 30 | Complex statistical multivariate procedures can be used to correlate and group market research data so as to give a statistically accurate identification of : * the size of segment groups and their similarities ; * the differences between the various groupings of attribute sets ; * the relationship of these groups to important consumer , market or product/benefit requirements . |