Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 2 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 3 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 4 | The soil in this area was as good as anywhere on the island and was noted for potatoes . |
| 5 | Souness , 39 , is training with his first-team squad every day and has warned them he will be as demonstrative as ever in the dug-out . |
| 6 | The structural complexity here is as great as anywhere in the world , with the surface features forming the end point of a series of chemical and physical transformations and movements of the rocks at depth under the influences of high pressures and moderate temperatures . |
| 7 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 8 | Or were they a security squad determined to drive some supposed gawping cluster of citizenry below , unsure as yet in the darkness of their rank or affiliation ? |
| 9 | He knelt as erect as ever at the table . |
| 10 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 11 | Forty years ago , the forests along the eastern fringe of the Andes were as inaccessible as anywhere in the world ; but it is there that is found wild cocoa with the greatest genetic diversity . |
| 12 | Harriet asked silently and was as far as ever from an answer . |
| 13 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 14 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 15 | Chapter 4 will also examine the impact of market mechanisms on those problems , a discussion which is relevant as well to the control of management goals under consideration in this chapter . |
| 16 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Royal and ancient PRINCESS Margaret 's eyes and tongue proved as sharp as ever at the preview of the Sovereign Exhibition at the V & A last week . |
| 17 | The brave Stewart , solid as ever at the back , played the entire second half with a bandaged head after a collision with an opponent . |
| 18 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |
| 19 | Officials in London and Washington have insisted the relationship is as strong as ever despite the transmission last night of a TV programme highlighting the help given to George Bush 's presidential campaign by Tory Party workers . |
| 20 | It is curious that such a close relative of the hibernating hedgehog , the mole — which also feeds on earthworms and insects — remains as active as ever during the winter . |
| 21 | During the last 30 years , CFCs have contributed only one third as much to the Earth 's heat budget as carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 23 | Alexei stared out of the open end of the room , awed as always by the view . |