Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 2 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 3 | Although all that is required , where the new husband is acquiring the husband 's interest , is an assignment of the husband 's equitable interest , this is plainly impracticable as neither the new husband nor the wife will wish the husband to continue to have any interest at all in the property . |
| 4 | A particularly difficult problem is the passage of fragments down the cystic duct ; provided these fragments pass into the common bile duct endoscopic sphincterotomy successfully manages the situation ( patient VII , XI ) , but if the stone remains in the cystic duct removal can be impossible as even the smallest scope or basket will not dislodge the stone ( patient XII ) . |
| 5 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 6 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 7 | So Schwarz was left alone as almost the only supporter of string theory , but now with the much higher proposed value of the string tension . |
| 8 | Fagan was a bleak and determined little man , tidy and forbidding as only an ex-steeplechase jockey can be . |
| 9 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 10 | His eyes sparkle at the prospect of retiring three years hence having established Ruby in particular as possibly a bigger money spinner even than Staley 's high fructose corn syrup . |
| 11 | In any case , as far as everyday quantum mechanics is concerned , we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device ( or trick ) to calculate answers about real space-time . |
| 12 | Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's . |
| 13 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 14 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |