Example sentences of "as [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 3 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 4 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 5 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 6 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 7 | The wolf took it from his hand as delicately as a cat , and licked his palm . |
| 8 | Yet , if she stopped to examine it , was n't there something better than intoxication being built between them , as delicately as a spider 's web , line by gossamer line ? |
| 9 | He would pick his way delicately , almost mincing , along the trail between the giant pine cones , planting his two-toed feet as delicately as the Queen Mother would in a field of cow pats . |
| 10 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 11 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 12 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 13 | It hit me as forcibly as a blow to the stomach . |
| 14 | The MATIF 's other French products , namely the Paris Interbank Offer Rate ( PIBOR ) contracts and the CAC 40 index future , trade at adequate volumes , though by no means as vigorously as the Government Bond derivatives . |
| 15 | Have you made proper use of initial questionnaires and will the interview be properly prepared and structured ? ( 4 ) Have you considered if and when to issue witness summons or subpeonas ? ( 5 ) Have you or your client prepared a thumbnail sketch of the witness for counsel ? ( 6 ) Have you tested the witness 's evidence as vigorously as the opposition will ? |
| 16 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 17 | Mainstream social administration opinion , inevitably constrained by fiscal orthodoxy , political considerations , and the wage structure , argued that the relaxations of means-testing which were introduced in 1924 had , in Wilson and Mackay 's somewhat disingenuous verdict , ‘ extended non-contributory pensions as widely as the system permitted ’ . |
| 18 | The work of solicitors varies as widely as the community they service . |
| 19 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 20 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'd better go indoors now , ’ he said , as gently as a mother . |
| 22 | If this is the decision , then such a way of life can be specified as Godly and incorporated into the Created God for as long as a consensus desires it . |
| 23 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 24 | When he was absent for as long as a day . |
| 25 | If not then add the cost of your time , charged at your usual rate of pay — and if you are like me then you will take at least five times as long as a garage , because of having less experience and fewer tools ( such as a hoist ) . |
| 26 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 27 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 28 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 29 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
| 30 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |