Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 2 | In this sense ARC/INFO macros , do , to a certain extent , shield the novice from a bewildering number of options , though such a system is most certainly not conversational and in several respects is very simple as compared with a comprehensive DSS . |
| 3 | Creating this elegant , opulent bedhead is as simple as making curtains and hanging a rack . |
| 4 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 5 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 6 | Also , I 've always thought that giving pleasure is as important as receiving it . |
| 7 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 8 | ( Do n't forget , I was raised in Norfolk where the skill of punting barges is as natural as walking . ) |
| 9 | If it is allowed that such contrivance is pedagogically desirable as activating the process of learning , then it sets its own conditions for normality . |
| 10 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |
| 11 | Estimating the extent of any benefit is as important as determining whether there is a benefit . |
| 12 | However divorce is as effective as dieting for shifting stubborn weight ! |
| 13 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 14 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 15 | Having a wardrobe of fragrances is as exciting as owning a vast array of stylish clothes ( with the advantage , after you 've made your initial choice , that perfumes always fit ) . |
| 16 | I have argued throughout this paper against the various theories that hold that human aggression is so formidable as to require special mechanisms for handling or redirection . |
| 17 | But , as we have seen , there is no evidence that unfair credit refusal is so widespread as to justify an elaborate system for redress ( and statutory bodies already exist which have the duty to hunt down cases of real discrimination on grounds of sex or race ) . |
| 18 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 19 | The profile of the vertical curve is so calculated as to correspond with the gradually diminishing hauling effort of the descending tank as it enters the water . |
| 20 | The theme is so persistent as to invite analysis . |
| 21 | Given the rise in Berlin property prices , choosing a site is as important as getting major funding . |
| 22 | this joke is as radical as farting in bed … |
| 23 | The third process is as old as printing itself . |
| 24 | ( There is a minor imprecision in the definition since it does not specify the size and shape of the subject used to measure the blackout point , but the variation is slight , and ‘ the ’ blackout point is sufficiently accurate as defined . ) |
| 25 | Turning up the charm level at this point is as effective as spraying DDT in her eye . |
| 26 | In this Europe there is a Benetton in every high street , Badoit and Czech Budweiser in every fridge , an Armani jacket in every wardrobe , Beaujolais Nouveau on every table , cable and satellite television channels in many languages in every living room , an Umberto Eco novel on every bookshelf , a Volvo in every garage , where CDs of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lie casually next to Eurythmics , and where nipping across to Paris for the day is as natural as doing a day 's business in London . |
| 27 | Allard had arrived in Paris from Lille in the spring of 1910 and his first contacts were with the future Cubists ; because of this , his criticism is doubly interesting as representing their ideas unclouded by outside opinion . |
| 28 | There may be uncertainties in interpreting an ultrasound picture ; the prognosis of the abnormality detected is not always known ; and in some groups of defects , such as oesophageal atresia or obstructive defects of urinary system , it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . |
| 29 | As Czeizel and colleagues point out , ‘ it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . ’ |
| 30 | Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions . |