Example sentences of "as [adv] as [art] " 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 | Making love , walking the dog or knocking a squash ball about will do the job as effectively as a stiff drink , and they are less likely to hasten your demise . |
| 3 | Individual heating appliances such as gas convectors can be controlled by thermostats and time switches just as effectively as a central heating system , and will obviously cost less to install . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 6 | However , this weaker bitumen trapped uraninite and radio-nuclides just as effectively as the surrounding harder material . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | " 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 . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 12 | One blind six-year-old could even steer a tricycle almost as skilfully as a sighted child . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 16 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
| 17 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 20 | The Old Dissenting sects failed as badly as the Established Church in meeting the challenge of population growth and the Industrial Revolution . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | The wolf took it from his hand as delicately as a cat , and licked his palm . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Abu was an army man in an army jeep , to which he was wedded as intimately as an Indian mahout is wedded to his elephant . |
| 30 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |