Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As she looked up into his face Lisa was aware of eyes as black as ebony and as cold as the sea bed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These developments extend a comprehensive portfolio , with Electrical Insulation products going into end-uses as diverse as fishing rods and violin bows . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even with existing technologies applications are emerging in areas as diverse as shopfloor guidance , document filing and building planning and management . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 |
| 16 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 17 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 18 | I have been extremely fortunate to have worked in three scientific spheres : botanical , paleontological and malacological , over 19 years and even luckier to have been able to do scientific illustrating for publication , on subjects as diverse as grass flowers and tiny rodent jawbones ! |
| 19 | A concise , practical household guide with information and expert advice on topics as diverse as stain removal , gardening , home decorating and cookery . |
| 20 | She currently sells her company 's products to outlets as diverse as Liberty , Harvey Nichols and the Guggenheim Museum in New York . |
| 21 | To rid the UK of the label , the document says , the government must introduce fundamental policy changes on issues as diverse as air , water and waste policies , Antarctic oil exploration and greenhouse gas control . |
| 22 | Players , umpires and rival fans have found themselves being physically attacked by objects as varied as flashlight batteries and souvenir baseball bats ( Edwards and Rackages , 1977 ; Fimrite , 1976 ; Talamini , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity . |
| 24 | In years to come the commercialisation of BR via sectorisation could well be seen by historians as important as grouping and nationalisation . |