Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 2 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 3 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 4 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I used the old illustration : a ball of steel as large as the world , a fly alighting on it once every million years . |
| 6 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 7 | Woolworth 's engagement rings , each a lump of glass as big as the Ritz . |
| 8 | Luckily Mr Melding , 29 , a corduroy-clad career Tory who runs the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in Cardiff , has a sense of humour as black as the local coal . |
| 9 | The schools of the established Church banned the teaching of writing for this kind of reason as much as the Methodists did for sabbatarian ones . |
| 10 | Old tale of corruption as pretty as a picture |
| 11 | It was an exercise in self-congratulation from the leader of the self-proclaimed Land of Liberty as much as an expression of solidarity with the oppressed . |
| 12 | Critically , this approach to art production puts the stress on the means of representation as much as the representation itself . |
| 13 | The new technology of the fifth wave affects the process of production as much as the kinds of products which are produced , and the new labour processes can be applied to older industries as well as new . |
| 14 | ‘ Nowadays sophisticated tractors need to be under cover as much as the high-tech lifeboats they serve . |
| 15 | He could not see that Tess was in character as pure as the pure wife in the Bible . |
| 16 | A laser produces a beam which is easier to focus into a monomode fibre because its light does not spread in frequency as much as a LED . |
| 17 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 18 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 19 | But you 're still in limbo as far as the |
| 20 | Ceauşescu liked to win at chess : the result of the game asserted his supremacy over his opponent in politics as much as the skills of the game itself — few risked beating the Comrade . |
| 21 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 22 | Already small heaps of green faggots were laid about the stool , with dry weeds on top as high as the victim 's groin . |