Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically the post-1945 world has not been unified , but bi- polar , and organised round two superpowers which may just be describable as jumbo-sized nations , but certainly not as parts of an international state system of the 19th-century or pre-1939 type . |
| 2 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 3 | It is possible to catalogue a chorus of social self-congratulation , as respectable commentators recount the positive achievement of tranquillity since the days of their youth , as the very epitome of social progress . |
| 4 | Kang proposed that the two states should acquire separate UN membership as a temporary measure until such time as Korean reunification was achieved . |
| 5 | As pungent smoke was blown into her face , Diana 's eyes went red and watery . |
| 6 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 7 | This has been particularly marked in production as multinational corporations organize their processes on a worldwide scale and ‘ source ’ parts for their finished products from factories , workshops and even domestic labour [ ’ putting-out' or ‘ homeworkers ' ] linked in an international network . |
| 8 | Small and medium-sized firms as well as multinational corporations interact in UK manufacturing , and manufacturing firms interact with financial institutions and other enterprises in the growing service sector . |
| 9 | Finding the foreign exchange to pay for permissions may be difficult , especially as multinational publishers often change high prices for the use of material . |
| 10 | Make up the pinch pleats as Interlined Curtains , leaving a tiny space on either side of the pleats ( fig. 38 ) . |
| 11 | The capacity of the mature human individual to run through whole sets of possible scenarios as imagined responses to a problem situation or as a means to achieve a goal so far existent only in thought , is the secret of human ascendancy . |
| 12 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 13 | A study of the rural North East showed that critical thresholds may be as low as 120 persons , below which there is a precipitous fall-off in all services ( Edwards 1964 ) . |
| 14 | We have successfully recovered ds DNA fragments as small as 120 bp . |
| 15 | As 120 jobs were axed at Scottish Power 's giant Longannet coal-fired power station in Fife yesterday , the Government announced plans to create 1.5 million new training places to help the long-term unemployed . |
| 16 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 17 | The face length of a system may be as much as 75 metres long . |
| 18 | Some strains of mice with hamster PrP transgenes , when inoculated with hamster prions show incubation periods as short as 75 days rather than the 500 or more days in non-transgeneic controls . |
| 19 | As far as awful games go this one takes some beating . |
| 20 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 21 | Born in Herefordshire but living at Naunton in Gloucestershire Scu hit the top as stable jockey to David Nicholson before forming a devastating partnership with Martin Pipe . |
| 22 | One may think of similarly structured expressions within one category — differing only in lexical items — as stable sub-assemblies with an independent communicative value of their own . |
| 23 | The Harmsworth family interests , chiefly derived from the brothers Alfred and Harold , Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere , and trading as Associated Newspapers , had seven evenings and a major interest in four others ( as well as managing , but not owning , a twelfth ) . |
| 24 | More than 20 developers from Sun 's technical staff are teaming with Oracle developers to enhance and localise the Oracle Applications products , as well as associated technologies to improve the efficiency of Sun 's worldwide manufacturing operations , implement the integration of Sun 's Open Look graphical user interface with all components of Oracle 's product suite , and optimise Oracle7 for Sun 's new multiprocessor servers and produce applications that can be sold to Sun 's customers as well . |
| 25 | The deal provides for Nichimen to distribute in Japan Transtech 's 80860-based TRAM-TTM 110 parallel processor board , as well as associated Transputer software such as compilers . |
| 26 | As associated reality is the regressive character of prison conditions . |
| 27 | Yet authentic conversation and involvement must allow for a full range of likes and dislikes to be expressed , and also for criticism as well as acknowledgement , but we need to do this in such a way that we do as little damage as possible to other people as people . |
| 28 | The inhabitants of Darcy 's Utopia will have as much or as little difficulty getting together as anyone else . |
| 29 | ‘ International Communism has as much or as little significance as the Commonwealth . ’ |
| 30 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |