Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large there were almost as many buffaloes as black cattle throughout Kandyan districts , but in the Low Country black cattle outnumbered buffaloes by at least two to one and in some districts by as much as ten to one . |
| 2 | Most of these art centres were quickly colonised by the theatre and theatre-based activities leaving all the other arts as poor relatives , certainly not equal partners within the art centre . |
| 3 | Another appointee might have seen the ideological struggle about money for the arts as politics-as-usual . |
| 4 | Trained at the Royal College of Art , Paris studios , and in Italy , Havell joined the Madras School of Arts as principal in 1884 , a post he held until 1892 , when he returned to England . |
| 5 | When learning is viewed in this way , students often regard science as progressive , and the arts as static ; science as infinite and the arts as finite . |
| 6 | It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge . |
| 7 | Hudson 's schoolboys saw science as masculine and the arts as feminine . |
| 8 | The arts as social forms |
| 9 | When learning is viewed in this way , students often regard science as progressive , and the arts as static ; science as infinite and the arts as finite . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , while Khrushchev , Brezhnev and their successors as general secretary of the Communist Party remained the most prominent figures in the Soviet political process , clearly they did not dominate the Politburo as Stalin did — they had to carry their colleagues with them . |
| 11 | Although not every member of the Essex Federation Executive shared these views , Brown 's successors as tutor-organiser for the county understandably found the context a difficult one to work in . |
| 12 | Use the remaining fondant ( with trimmings as necessary ) to form a second , brown , horse 's head . |
| 13 | The idea was to obtain as many outstanding characteristics as possible from the patient and then to find the remedy , or remedies , which contained them all . |
| 14 | Try and find as many characteristics as possible . |
| 15 | The control group is one in which as many characteristics as possible are ‘ matched ’ with the known characteristics of the group under study — except , that is , for the variable or characteristic in which we are interested . |
| 16 | Because much of a dolphin 's life is spent beyond the range of human observation , such basic characteristics as reproductive rates and life expectancy are much harder to measure than with birds and land mammals . |
| 17 | Reactors of all designs with the same characteristics as large vessels . |
| 18 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 19 | GRAEME SOUNESS sat helpless in the stands as fiery Liverpool were extinguished by the ice-cool professionalism of Spartak Moscow . |
| 20 | As you know , it 's pretty easy to stay within R & A guidelines as long as any kinks in the shaft are within so many inches of the putter head and so on . |
| 21 | The Department of Health regards the WHO guidelines as over-cautious . |
| 22 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 23 | On my first arrival it stunned me so as to be insupportable : but such is the power of habit that the same noise is now heard by me with pleasure ; in the night particularly , when in bed and afar , on my terrace , this music sounds in my ears as solemn , grand and melodious . |
| 24 | The Eight Extraordinary Dancers lived there up to the ears as usual with their own brand of juvenile mischief , watching the matron getting undressed by looking over her partition or stitching up her nightdress . |
| 25 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 26 | The seminar fee has been reduced to encourage as many members and non-members as possible to register and attend . |
| 27 | The statement reflected worries among the NATO leaders about the risks as Soviet central control disintegrated and republican governments took power . |
| 28 | Once this was established , Neil Fraser and the other two targets would be low risks as usual . |
| 29 | It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners . |
| 30 | All the brushes mentioned have been recommended by the manufacturers as appropriate for use with acrylic paints . |