Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pers pn] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be kept in shoals for the best effect as it is a mid-water swimmer . |
| 2 | Daily we are becoming more aware that AIDS is as much a development issue as it is a health issue . |
| 3 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 4 | A subset of this module type is known as a PRODUCT package as it is a package intended for issue as a product . |
| 5 | In Orwell 's time , Wigan was as much a cotton town as it was a coal town , and if his excavation of the elements of exploitation was to have been adequate , it could not have omitted the experience of women in the cotton industry . |
| 6 | The orthodox legal position was re-stated namely , that where there is an effective reservation of title clause this does not constitute a conventional security device as it is a reservation of title by the supplier rather than a grant by the debtor of a jus in re aliena ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 7 | Now leading the Elf army , Tyrion proved to be every bit as skillful a general as he was a warrior . |
| 8 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 9 | But her clothes were not literal , as clothes rarely are ; she was as much a bloodsportswoman as he was a baseball fan . |
| 10 | I did n't meet him in person as it was a studio link-up . |
| 11 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 12 | That is why the production of analgesics is almost as much an art as it is a science . |
| 13 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 14 | Sean had a free ticket to the Smorgasbord as he was the driver but the waiter charged me only half price after hearing where we had been . |
| 15 | as much a revolution of the non-Russian against Russification as it was a revolution of workers , peasants and radical intellectuals against autocracy . |
| 16 | Coolness was his stock in trade as he was a scientist on our side . |
| 17 | ‘ At least he had the decency to tell me himself I hope he is as successful a manager as he was a player . ’ |
| 18 | It is Miss Havisham 's way of getting her revenge on the male sex as it was a man who broke her heart , all those years ago , when she was abandoned on the day of her wedding . |
| 19 | It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine . |
| 20 | He is a far finer figure than I arm — as fine a man as you are a woman ! |
| 21 | Having used both Ami Pro 3.0 and Word 2 for Windows ( which has to be seen as the main competition as it is the number one heavyweight word processor ) I find that I do prefer Ami Pro for one simple reason — its use of colour . |
| 22 | We brought another medium into the studio as we were a bit worried with all the goings on . |
| 23 | Adherence to any given theory , or eclecticism , or to no particular theory is as much a political statement as it is a matter of theoretical conviction . |
| 24 | This is the important part of the report as it is the reason for the original commissioning of the report . |
| 25 | This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health . |
| 26 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 27 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ If he 's as good a detective as he is a poet , he 's a dangerous man . |
| 29 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 30 | I do n't need a pure instruction type course as I 'm a ski leader and have been ski touring in Scotland , the Lakes and the Northern Pennines . |