Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the M twenty five clockwise the traffic is very heavy and slow moving from junction thirteen for Staines as far as junction eighteen for Chorleywood , that 's due to earlier accidents and the volume of traffic . |
| 2 | On the M twenty five , clockwise traffic 's very heavy and slow moving , from junction thirteen for Staines as far as junction eighteen for Chorleywood , and also anti-clockwise traffic is slow at junction seventeen , that 's Mablecross . |
| 3 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 4 | Hateley is hard evidence that footballers , and maybe especially strikers , thrive on strength of mind as much as body . |
| 5 | As she looked up into his face Lisa was aware of eyes as black as ebony and as cold as the sea bed . |
| 6 | In other words , it 's a question of attitude as much as location . |
| 7 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 8 | To these offences were soon added the brutal measures which the Bolsheviks took to cling to power , the barbarous excesses of the ‘ Red Terror ’ during the Civil War ( 1918–20 ) , the suppression of all rival parties , the curtailment of liberties as basic as freedom of speech and conscience . |
| 9 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 10 | There is no form of advertising so valuable as word of mouth . |
| 11 | It is a matter of politics as much as education whether they grasp the flow of history and understand how events flow into one another . |
| 12 | Marissa , a tall cool girl with hair as dark as night , had been not only obviously very clever , but also — alas — very beautiful . |
| 13 | At the upper levels , more of the units deal with substantial or informative topics , including subjects as varied as video games , design , Shakespeare , pop music and the British royal family . |
| 14 | The skiing conditions little better , with snow as soft as sand . |
| 15 | Mark Warner Travel offers holidays to destinations throughout the Mediterranean ‘ club ’ type packages including elements as diverse as accommodation , food and the cost of participating in organised sports . |
| 16 | It 's to do with catarrh as much as region . ’ |
| 17 | These developments extend a comprehensive portfolio , with Electrical Insulation products going into end-uses as diverse as fishing rods and violin bows . |
| 18 | And covered with sugar as sparkling as ice . |
| 19 | After the mortal blows administered to Wales in recent dismal times by international sides far and wide , big and small , perhaps Welshmen should sigh with relief as much as satisfaction — at any rate until the Wales pack have to confront England 's magnificent eight at Twickenham . |
| 20 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 21 | When they found their home occupied by a man and two children , they simply stood in the doorway with faces as empty as begging bowls , and made no complaint . |
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| 23 | It moved from hope as high as heaven and a garden bright with love through unutterable sadness , loss , and then violence , to the return to Chaos in the Flood . |
| 24 | ‘ In Edinburgh , the course originally developed as a means of helping foreign post-graduate students — working in subjects as diverse as architecture , law , medicine , language teaching , and the physical sciences — to write clearly and logically in English . |
| 25 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 26 | INDUSTRIALISTS in the US hope that a new research facility providing high-energy radiation will recover for them lost ground in areas as diverse as microcircuitry and metals processing . |
| 27 | Even with existing technologies applications are emerging in areas as diverse as shopfloor guidance , document filing and building planning and management . |
| 28 | They are psychologically , spiritually and in personality as different as chalk and cheese . |
| 29 | NatWest Leasing has tied up several major deals in the past 12 months with clients in industries as varied as motor manufacturing and power stations . |
| 30 | ( Above ) Noble Metals at Royston manufacture a wide range of fabricated platinum group metal products used in industries as diverse as glass , electronics , automotive and in advanced medical applications |