Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to this and partially as a result of it , there is little in the way of national planning ’ . |
| 2 | Radishes : best sown little and often as a catch crop among other vegetables . |
| 3 | Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson ! |
| 4 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 5 | This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 6 | She had risen at dawn each day , when the sky was still apricot-coloured and swum naked and alone as the sun rose . |
| 7 | Agnes Fogerty , quiet and still as a mouse , and not unlike that timid animal in her much-pressed grey flannel skirt and twin-set to match , stood oblivious of the chaos around her . |
| 8 | Most horsemen in Suffolk did not powder the bone but used it whole and also as a device to jade and not to draw the horse . |