Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The CNAA was now dealing with the new generation of polytechnics but also with Scottish institutions , and institutions as diverse as the Royal Air Force College , Cranwell , and the London Bible College . |
2 | His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers . |
3 | Participants will not have the same protection as employees and trainees as far as the Health and Safety at Work Act is concerned . |
4 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
5 | Yet this is , in many ways , a weak administration : supported by a minority vote last November , bereft of men and women as big as the president himself can be . |
6 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |