Example sentences of "as surely as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smell it as surely as I smell a knocked off car , a crooked log book . |
| 2 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 3 | The sudden flood was more like a wave than rain and it blinded the window as surely as darkness . |
| 4 | As surely as if he could see them actually arriving , see them now , he pictured the stolen lorries driven in . |
| 5 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 6 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 7 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 8 | But all regimes must end , just as surely as we will die : though we do n't like to face it , any more than we like to face death . |
| 9 | It clung to her as surely as her shadow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Someone who knowingly touches another without his consent violates this personal right as surely as if he had taken his property . |
| 12 | He was trapped in his body , as surely as a crashed motorist could be held in a wrecked car by a locked seat belt . |
| 13 | Change was in the air of Glasgow as surely as Bill Haley , his kiss curl hanging limply over one eye , was singing ‘ Rockin' Through the Rye ’ and driving an entirely new breed of Glaswegian wild with frenzy … the teenager . |
| 14 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 15 | Watching it takes you into the mind of Ramanujan as surely as a long look into his eyes . |
| 16 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |
| 17 | The Second World War put an end to this age as surely as the First World War began it . |
| 18 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 19 | As surely as I live , declares the Sovereign Lord , you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel . |
| 20 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ As surely as the woman of yesterday was born to ride in a limousine , the woman of today was born to ride in an aeroplane ’ pronounced Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 23 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 24 | The massive pin-sharp image completely fills the five-storey screen and you are there , as surely as if you were in an orbiting Shuttle . |
| 25 | A firm conviction of the truth of all this , secure in the minds of the parents by the time the child is born , is the best insurance that the process will start with birth just as surely as does the process of feeding . |
| 26 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 27 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 28 | Listening to her heavy breathing and her occasional vigorous sniffs , I could feel her concentration as she followed behind me as surely as a blind bat senses light . |
| 29 | Hendrix 's vocals had an almost hypnotic effect , an effect which Randy Hansen has captured with uncanny accuracy , as surely as he has emulated the sound of Jimi 's guitar . |
| 30 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |