Example sentences of "great as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 2 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 3 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 4 | It would seem , however , that the demand for gift delivery of hardback books at a charge of £4.99 ( plus the price of the book , of course ) was not as great as had been hoped . |
| 5 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 6 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 7 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 8 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 9 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 10 | ‘ The operational differences between federal and unitary states may not be as great as portrayed by the constitutional-legal classics on federalism ’ . |
| 11 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 12 | Or — another possibility — the curvature might be so great as to make the Universe close back on itself . |
| 13 | However , though it may not be ; as great as has sometimes been maintained there is a genuine difference . |
| 14 | Commending this agreement to his followers , Law was anxious that they recognise the advantage of Lloyd George as an ally , for " at this moment , Mr Lloyd George commands an amount of influence in every constituency as great as has ever been exercised by any Prime Minister " . |
| 15 | Members of the House of Commons ' Environment select committee have concluded that the rate of destruction of Brazilian rainforest is not as great as has been reported . |
| 16 | ONE CONSORTIUM , Five TV , hopes that the imagined problems will be so great as to discourage competition and that all potential investors ( who include The Daily Telegraph ) will accrete to its application and that the ITC will be left with a choice of one . |
| 17 | There are several reasons why Range Rovers lean and your lean of 15mm is not great as leans go ! |
| 18 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 19 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 20 | As the following sections show , however , case load problems were not as great as predicted ; and although the development officers continued to feel some lack of back-up services they did not consider it a severe impediment to their implementation of the project . |
| 21 | Sendero 's immediate retaliation following the arrests was not as great as feared , but a policeman was shot dead in Lima on Sept. 14 and five civilians were wounded in two explosions . |
| 22 | In unfavourable circumstances erosion may be so great as to tear a gap through the dunes , such a feature being described as a blow out . |
| 23 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |