Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 2 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
| 4 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Not as keenly as I feel your jealousy , pretty one , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ My name 's Erskine Morris , ’ said the man , vanishing the cigarettes as deftly as he had produced them , and continuing to write as he spoke . |
| 7 | Bottom-placed Barrow came from 14-0 down after 10 minutes to level 24-24 at Bradford but finished as badly as they had started , leaking a further 12 points in the final 14 minutes . |
| 8 | The initial deleterious effects of cost accounting struck the press as badly as they upset the railways , education , local Soviet administration , and trade . |
| 9 | Heffers ' sales were up 6 or 7% on last December : ‘ Christmas was n't marvellous , but it did n't turn out as badly as one feared it might , ’ reported Mark Wait . |
| 10 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 11 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 12 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 13 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 14 | All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared . |
| 15 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 16 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 17 | And she knew … she just knew he 'd wanted her , as badly as she 'd wanted him . |
| 18 | She was desparetely unlucky to fall as badly as she did . |
| 19 | He ran his hand the length of her spine , making her aware that he wanted her as badly as she wanted him , and for a wild moment she could see no reason why they should n't make love . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps not as badly as you wished to go , ’ he interrupted harshly . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously not as badly as you did . ’ |
| 22 | I feel as badly as you do , but we do n't have time for this . |
| 23 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
| 24 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 25 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 26 | Walking as slowly as she dared , Penelope was able to see that there were two figures in the room-Rupert himself and a woman , not very tall and wearing a dark , tweedy-looking suit . |
| 27 | Power levels control the amount of microwave energy entering the oven , so food can be cooked as quickly or as slowly as you like . |
| 28 | If at the end of the eight week period since completion , debts remained unpaid , the vendor should have the right to buy back [ at an agreed discount ] the debts which it may then seek to enforce ( as vigorously as it wishes ) in order to seek payment . |
| 29 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 30 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |