Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 2 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 3 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 4 | The soil in this area was as good as anywhere on the island and was noted for potatoes . |
| 5 | Souness , 39 , is training with his first-team squad every day and has warned them he will be as demonstrative as ever in the dug-out . |
| 6 | The structural complexity here is as great as anywhere in the world , with the surface features forming the end point of a series of chemical and physical transformations and movements of the rocks at depth under the influences of high pressures and moderate temperatures . |
| 7 | Or were they a security squad determined to drive some supposed gawping cluster of citizenry below , unsure as yet in the darkness of their rank or affiliation ? |
| 8 | He knelt as erect as ever at the table . |
| 9 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 10 | Forty years ago , the forests along the eastern fringe of the Andes were as inaccessible as anywhere in the world ; but it is there that is found wild cocoa with the greatest genetic diversity . |
| 11 | Harriet asked silently and was as far as ever from an answer . |
| 12 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 13 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 14 | Chapter 4 will also examine the impact of market mechanisms on those problems , a discussion which is relevant as well to the control of management goals under consideration in this chapter . |
| 15 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Royal and ancient PRINCESS Margaret 's eyes and tongue proved as sharp as ever at the preview of the Sovereign Exhibition at the V & A last week . |
| 16 | The brave Stewart , solid as ever at the back , played the entire second half with a bandaged head after a collision with an opponent . |
| 17 | Frequently coming into the net , but solid as ever from the baseline when she needed to be , she reached her second Australian Open final in three years . |
| 18 | Officials in London and Washington have insisted the relationship is as strong as ever despite the transmission last night of a TV programme highlighting the help given to George Bush 's presidential campaign by Tory Party workers . |
| 19 | It is curious that such a close relative of the hibernating hedgehog , the mole — which also feeds on earthworms and insects — remains as active as ever during the winter . |
| 20 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 21 | Alexei stared out of the open end of the room , awed as always by the view . |