Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enterprise as vast as the education service is bound to turn up horror stories daily . |
| 2 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 3 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 4 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 5 | The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp . |
| 6 | The orientation of the rolls will depend on whatever small perturbations happen to be present as the temperature difference is raised . |
| 7 | As a general rule , though , it is easier to cope with a dry site than a wet one : as long as a water supply is available , a dry site can be moistened to highlight the differences in soil colour and texture . |
| 8 | The new pop retained its radical credibility as long as the music business was on the defensive ; and in the late 1970s context of falling sales and punk politics there was , indeed , a sense that pop 's usual gatekeepers ( Artists and Repertoire departments , radio programmers , music press editors ) were not in control of what was happening . |
| 9 | okay , now , er , as long as the standing order 's kicking okay , there 's not a problem , you have not got to worry now , erm , all it is , is , it just falls into like |
| 10 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 11 | As long as the charge distribution is spherically symmetric , and as long as all the charges are inside the sphere of radius r0 the electric field depends only on r and not on r0 . |
| 12 | As long as the War Altar is undamaged the Grand Theogonist may add +2 to his strength . |
| 13 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 14 | Running a national business as complicated as a railway network is in all circumstances a daunting task , but the challenge is even more difficult when the government of the day can effectively veto any major decision . |
| 15 | This was not unreasonable as the changing room was the usual scrum of bodies with shirts , ties and the occasional boot flying through the air . |
| 16 | Using the quotation for BP options it can be seen that the 220p calls are in-the-money as the security price is 237p . |
| 17 | A project almost as big as the Channel Tunnel is now underway to bring cable television to every house in Britain . |
| 18 | It is to be presumed membership reached 200 as the entrance fee was re-imposed for the bond Redemption Fund which then stood at £35 11s. 1d. … enough to redeem 1 x £25 bond . |
| 19 | However , Chiddingfold 's joy was short-lived as the spot kick was fired wide of the post . |
| 20 | Lovely as the peak experience is , it is only the path to the transcendent . |