Example sentences of "as strong [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Further , the amount of time available in practice for part time Masters level courses makes it unlikely that occasional work will give awareness of language as strong a base as was provided for first degree work in other areas .
2 He found first , that the chief executives did not play as strong a leadership role as Bains recommended ; second , that professionalism and departmentalism had prevented the development of a corporate management team ; and third , that the policy committees were frequently not supported by the full range of subcommittees suggested by Bains .
3 But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals .
4 Social Services the world of Social Services do n't have as strong a lobby as the Education lobby , or the Environment lobby , nationally or traditionally , and in a way I think the awfulness of the situation got people to the point of saying enough 's enough , and that was to me very healthy , absolutely healthy .
5 YOU should make the most of this year because when Saturn lands in your opposite sign next year , you want to be in as strong a position as possible .
6 Few English monarchs have come to the throne in as strong a position as did James II .
7 And what Claudia was to find is that our century has proved that the irrational and the immaterial have as strong a hold as ever .
8 ‘ Having said that , fines imposed are not as strong a deterrent as they should be .
9 He seems to have just as strong a case .
10 On this evidence , however , almost as strong a case could be made for Johns , Kingston and O'Hara — although the last two named have said they are unavailable to tour .
11 Companies with as strong a balance sheet as yours have been known to seek acquisitions er , in the midst of a very deep recession .
12 As indicated earlier , the project does not seem to have built in as strong a mechanism for evaluation as it might , and it is not easy to determine the degree to which the project philosophy is alive and well in the project schools of three or four years ago .
13 Jakobson 's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study .
14 I 'd have as strong a claim for custody as you ! ’
15 Now fear of Labour makes the ‘ feel bad ’ factor almost as strong a force for Major as the ‘ feel good ’ factor was for Thatcher .
16 On the whole , however , the literature does not reflect as strong a research interest in the maternal age parameters of child morbidity as in the relationship of birth spacing , family size and birth order to child health .
17 The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point .
18 And yet this , perhaps , is as strong an argument as the best of their sex is able to produce , tho' convey 'd in a greasy light .
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