Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 2 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 3 | ‘ Parents see behaviour at home and school as separate — as if there 's no connection ’ The art of teaching has become almost incidental as the role of social worker has increased , says Douglas Fraser |
| 4 | But , so , oddly enough , does much of the statistical and purely ‘ factual ’ material which has become more abundant as the state extends its role . |
| 5 | OF ALL the fads spurred by the onset of the single European market , none has proved as damning as the one that might be called ‘ Euronomia ’ : an uncontrollable compulsion to include ‘ Euro ’ in company names . |
| 6 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 7 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 8 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 9 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 10 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 11 | By later blackboard-jungle classroom-rebel standards he would have appeared as disciplined as a fearful nun . |
| 12 | The 1006 supernova , in Lupus ( the Wolf ) is believed to have become as brilliant as the quarter-Moon . |
| 13 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 14 | It had grown less incongruous as the town grew towards it . |
| 15 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 16 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 17 | The automobile industry had become as fashion-conscious as the rag trade , and it had discovered how to make people discontented with even last year 's model . |
| 18 | I shied at such a thinly veiled challenge , but succumbed to her persuasion , which had become more vociferous as the water diminished . |
| 19 | He appeared to have a hard grasp on politics , current states ' rights issues and federal judgeships being contested — a scenario that had seemed as likely as the fusillade of laser fire Ali said Muslim spaceships would one day loose on the white devils . |
| 20 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 21 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 22 | Yet at one extreme a genuinely creative entrepreneur like Rupert Murdoch veered off into over-expansion and over- borrowing which have become as life-threatening as the antics of Alan Bond . |
| 23 | In United States maritime trade , both incoming and outgoing , freight forwarders ' receipts have become as common as the traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 24 | In the event , some of the consequences of the solution have proved as irksome as the problem , but they have done the trick . |