Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this weaker bitumen trapped uraninite and radio-nuclides just as effectively as the surrounding harder material . |
| 2 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |
| 3 | " 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 . " |
| 4 | The elegant studies undertaken by Bissell et al showed that none of the individual major matrix proteins used as a culture substratum would maintain hepatocyte function as effectively as the complete EHS gel complex . |
| 5 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 6 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | Some day a Western team will be able to get sufficient funds to train as intensively as the Poles , who yet again took the first three places and the team prize . |
| 8 | From nowhere she knew just as instinctively that the woman who married this man would always feel secure and cherished by his strength and kindness . |
| 9 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
| 10 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 11 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
| 12 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 13 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |
| 14 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 15 | The Old Dissenting sects failed as badly as the Established Church in meeting the challenge of population growth and the Industrial Revolution . |
| 16 | The slow pace of life on Cheung Chau Island , Lantau or in the rural New Territories recalls scenes of rural China where time sails as leisurely as the tea-laden junks of yesteryear . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These players will wear their prices as conspicuously as the plugs for Rank Xerox , Mars , Esso , Candy which , even on the field , keep them locked into the culture of commercial transactions . |
| 20 | Kitty knew them as well as any animal , as intimately as the dogs who worked the sheep and hunted the foxes and badgers and otters . |
| 21 | The hair , though white now , is still swept back , and , as he nears 83 , the bottom lip protrudes as crossly and the eyes bulge as they have always done . |
| 22 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | The work of solicitors varies as widely as the community they service . |
| 28 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 29 | For as long as the ‘ English ’ synthesis was adequately functioning there was no need or place for theory . |
| 30 | Another group of researchers , this time in Sweden , has discovered that this protective effect does n't only last for as long as the baby is breastfed . |