Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees are less important as takers-up of CO 2 than are marine diatoms , and most of the world 's trees grow ( or grew ) in the tropical forests , which were left largely unscathed until recent centuries . |
| 2 | As plants grow , the amount of purely structural material contained increases , and so the relative growth rates become less accurate as indicators of growth . |
| 3 | Overall , they are not nearly so trendy as articles about architecture which let the fortuitous effect of individual photographs lead the text into exaggeration and bombast . |
| 4 | It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes . |
| 5 | The effect of imposing taxes unilaterally rather than globally ( for example , within the EC but not in the US or Japan ) , would mean that countries less stringent in their environmental policies may become more attractive as locations for production . |
| 6 | International comparisons of unemployment rates are as notoriously difficult as measures of income distribution , and the Labour Ministry in Japan , as in other countries , has its own idiosyncratic style of creative statistical construction . |
| 7 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 8 | Steele , in charge of Music , had joined the staff in 1946 , and over the years had instilled his own love of music into hundreds of pupils by means which , if slightly idiosyncratic , were enormously successful , and had nurtured talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups , and soloists . |
| 9 | Health care was seldom a major political issue , and inequalities in its provision were considered as inevitable as inequalities in wealth . |
| 10 | So the observations about folk theories of consciousness , though highly interesting , do not in themselves show consciousness to be more impoverished than we had earlier thought , for fictions are as good as fillers of consciousness as are truths . |
| 11 | Her tolerance ( and eventually ability to forgive ) grew with the realisation that society is just as responsible as individuals for infidelity . |
| 12 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 13 | Overcoming this Catch 22 has cost modern fusion research billions of dollars so far , using arrays of magnets as big as houses in order to contain the fuel at temperatures ten times hotter even than those in the centre of the Sun , and making it dense enough and stable enough that a self-sustaining reaction can occur . |
| 14 | During early childhood ( 1–4 years ) accidents and illness are about equally important as causes of death . |
| 15 | In adulthood ( 15–64 years ) accidents and illness are equally important as causes of death . |