Example sentences of "great as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , military pressure-group activity and other involvement in policy-making in liberal democracies may well seem less drastic than mounting a coup , but the implications of less overt forms of military intervention may sometimes be almost as great as a coup for the political process . |
| 2 | It was as great as an army , they said , and Rime Giants walked with it like shepherds . |
| 3 | This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant . |
| 4 | The assistance of a fair tide is not as great as the hindrance of a foul tide — as any boatman will tell . |
| 5 | But this increase may not be as great as the rise in the numbers of older people if there is an improvement in their state of fitness as Jefferys and Thane ( 1989 ) suggest . |
| 6 | Their representation ( at 40% ) among homeless acceptances by local authorities is ten times as great as the proportion they form of the community ( 4% in 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Insulation in lofts which has blocked the natural ventilation of the roof at the eaves can cause condensation and wreak damage as great as the heaviest gales , but with no insurance to cover it . |
| 8 | Since this is almost as great as the differences these authors found between the three species ( tawny owls — 51 per cent bone loss ; long-eared owls — 46 per cent ; and barn owls — 34 per cent ) , some consideration must be given to this problem . |
| 9 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 10 | At the ‘ surface ’ of this black hole the pull of gravity would be about 1,600 million billion times as great as the pull we normally experience . |
| 11 | The first is that the amount of evolutionary divergence in the organization of primate brains has not been anywhere near as great as the divergence between primates and other groups . |
| 12 | Moreover , the commercial spin-off from defence research has proved to be nothing like as great as the gains made from comparable expenditures on industrial research [ Peck , 1968 ] . |
| 13 | Apprehension over Japanese revival was not as great as the Soviet fears over a German revival but the trend of American policy towards Japan could only be regarded as alarming from the Soviet perspective . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the convergence of computing and telecommunications would ( later ) present policy-making difficulties as great as the increasing interface between broadcasting and telecommunications . |
| 15 | It is evident that the only government which can fully satisfy all the exigencies of the social state is one in which the whole people participate ; that any participation , even in the smallest public function , is useful ; that the participation should everywhere be as great as the general degree of improvement of the community will allow ; and that nothing less can be ultimately desirable than the admission of all to a share in the sovereign power of the state . |
| 16 | One would have been the creation of a new light source , about as great as the sun . |
| 17 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 18 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 19 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 20 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 21 | So the impact of nineteen twenty five to seven on the Communist Party and on the revolution which it made in nineteen forty nine is just as great as the impact had been on the Kuomintang and nationalist China . |
| 22 | The trouble here is that the implausibility of the truth of scepticism is about as great as the implausibility of the truth of anti-realism . |
| 23 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 24 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 25 | As great as the Renaissance and Reformation/Counter-Reformation . |
| 26 | The King had told him that Gaveston aimed high , coveted an earldom , and wished to use his friendship with the Prince to found a dynasty as great as the de Clares , the Beaumonts , or any of the great lords who had followed the Conqueror across the Narrow Seas . |
| 27 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 28 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 29 | Much will also depend on the structure of organisations : the benefit from integrating the databases of separate departments may not be as great as the costs involved . |
| 30 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |