Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Active methods of treatment for venous ulcers do work , but the ‘ Hawthorn ’ effect must be remembered , in that part of any improvement is due to the change as much as the method , or ‘ a change is a s good as a rest ’ . |
| 2 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 3 | The nine-month period of apprenticeship included Bible study , history and doctrine of the Salvation Army , and lessons in finance , organisation and preaching , with the emphasis on the heart as much as the head . |
| 4 | Here the idea of the economic plan and the notion of the building of communism are integrative mechanisms which bind the elite as much as the non-elites ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 139 ) . |
| 5 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 6 | ‘ That would make the buyer as cheap as the seller , ’ he said flatly as he stepped away from the wall . |
| 7 | The evening sun glowed from the west as brassy as a dinner-gong , throwing long purple shadows across the untidy lawn and into the bushes . |
| 8 | But Mr Waigel now fears the deficit as much as the recession that is widening it . |
| 9 | As for yourself , syphilis can affect the mind as much as the body . ’ |
| 10 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 11 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
| 12 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 13 | The system challenges the management as much as the staff and this is a vital element in its acceptability . |
| 14 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 15 | Aurally and visually the performance was an exhilarating experience , with the agile , sequined , Scottish soloist gliding among the percussion instruments dazzling the eye as much as the ear . |
| 16 | These days we have dealt very satisfactorily with the problem ; we have made the rector as poor as the vicar ! |
| 17 | Nevertheless , attempts have been made to get as near the truth as possible as the brief account given here indicates . |
| 18 | He found the stews around the riverside as busy as an overturned ant heap in summer as boatmen , sailors and fishermen flocked down to the river bank to watch the ice thaw . |
| 19 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 20 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 21 | A scene of organised chaos greeted visitors to the festival , with games going on amid much cheering and urging from excited parents and coaches , many apparently enjoying the occasion as much as the players themselves . |
| 22 | I saw a hole in one of his socks at the back as big as a potato , and offered to do some mending for him . ’ |
| 23 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |
| 24 | and the putty as dry as a Wesley an wedding . |
| 25 | She saw Fand drop her spear and sink to the ground as light as a feather , eyes closed and pale hair streaming . |
| 26 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 27 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
| 28 | Is it the mind of the assembly to accept the deliverance as amended as a whole now ? |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll find the river as effective as a cold shower . ’ |
| 30 | In that process it is not the style as much as the consistency of those managers which is significant . |