Example sentences of "[adj] as [det] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 2 | ‘ Thousands of kids wo n't have as much as that in a life-time . |
| 3 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 4 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 5 | The impact of this slavering beast on an enemy formation is just as effective as that of a Knight with a lance . |
| 6 | The need for the council to be able to protect its reputation by an action for libel is , with proper regard to the public interest , at least as great as that of a trading corporation or a trade union . |
| 7 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 8 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 9 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
| 10 | Her eyes were red-rimmed but the set of her mouth was as severe as that of a judge . |
| 11 | The outer doors were as heavy as those in a bank vault and inside the air was clean , dry and quite cold . |
| 12 | But in real life such oscillations are seldom as rhythmical as those of a stone hanging freely from a string ; the comparison would be more exact if the string were supposed to hang in the troubled waters of a mill-race , whose stream was at one time allowed to flow freely , and at another partially cut off . |
| 13 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 14 | Not all were as exotic as those with a succession of Miss Worlds , some of whom had to be nursed along ( with a few retakes ) as they struggled for appropriate poise and vocabulary . |
| 15 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 16 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 17 | ‘ Why does Van want to waste his time showing a car as expensive as that to a kid like Hank ? ’ wondered Mr Frizzell irritably . |
| 18 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 19 | To do something as cruel as this to a member of your own family can not be something a fair and just woman would do . |
| 20 | He is said to have produced ‘ a tone as sweet as that of a hautboy ’ . |