Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When researchers look at schooling from the point of view of girls , it is perhaps not surprising that writers as diverse as Alison Kelly and Valerie Walkerdine can come up with very similar findings . |
| 2 | Another important exception can be found in Grieco 's ( 1987 ) data on the use of kin networks to secure employment , where she found that relatives as distant as cousins were as likely to be involved as close kin in arrangements which brought a number of male and female kin into the same workplace or firm . |
| 3 | In Spring Fever — The Precarious Future of Britain 's Flora and Fauna , he warns that species as varied as bluebells , mountain hares and the great raft spider — currently the subject of a reintroduction programme by English Nature — will be among the casualties . |
| 4 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 5 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 6 | Dense forests , coniferous and broad-leaved , also rocky gorges on mountains and in deserts , hunting at dawn and dusk for mammals as large as roe deer and birds as large as Capercaillie. 26–28 in. ( 66–71 cm . ) . |
| 7 | The little grease-ball of a gaoler waddled off , taking us along passages and galleries as black as midnight , down steps coated with slime and human dirt where rats swarmed thick as fleas on a mangy dog . |
| 8 | Both looked very similar , faces and hair as white as snow whilst their eyes were strangely blue though red-rimmed . |
| 9 | And hair as red as carrots ! ’ |
| 10 | Too big and too dramatic , with his wild black hair , copper-dark suntan and eyes as black as midnight . |
| 11 | And rats as big as cats ! |
| 12 | Why are there not beetles as big as badgers and moths as large as hawks ? |
| 13 | Party campaigns tended to stress differences in style and personalities as much as policies . |
| 14 | But they also brought reports of strong , fortified cities , and inhabitants as big as giants , and these , as chapter 14 now makes clear , make more impact on the people than the assurances of fertility . |
| 15 | Couches and armchairs as big as beds were surrounded by Graeco-Roman statuary and Oriental urns . |
| 16 | Scarlatti and Bach reveal his ear for tonal colour , and miniatures as unlike as Beethoven 's Ecossaise in E flat and his own ear-tickling Valse amour confirm him as a charmer of the first order . |
| 17 | Married couples need to work through their shared past disappointments and mistakes as much as individuals do . |
| 18 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 19 | We paddle on seas the green of cat 's eyes , and seas as clear as mountain streams . |
| 20 | When institutions as diverse as hospitals , railways , schools , and refuse services are having to publish data demonstrating their performance , medical journals need to join in . |
| 21 | The reduction in price is , as companies as diverse as Eagle Star , Vernons Pools , Fullers Brewery , J Sainsbury and Co and even ACCOUNTANCY Magazine have been quick to see . |
| 22 | Modernist painting , as theorists as diverse as Adorno , Greenberg ( 1983 ) , and Wollheim ( 1980 ) have observed , draws the attention away from reality and to the picture surface itself , to the systematic development of possibilities in the aesthetic material . |