Example sentences of "at [adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly with Office Systems and Groupware applications the information issues may be at least as complex as the technology . |
| 2 | This is at least as controversial as the original finding ; its meaning is not clear , nor is the nature of the difference between the different D2s . |
| 3 | But they have Richard Littlejohn and he weighs at least as much as a bison . |
| 4 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 5 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 6 | As villages grew into towns and towns into cities , the lack of churchyards was felt at least as much as the lack of churches . |
| 7 | Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS . |
| 8 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 9 | If this move is sound , our second sceptical argument attacks the notion of justified belief at least as much as the first argument does ; in fact even more , because it is more global . |
| 10 | Greeks valued the second kind , which included freedom to oppress and dominate , at least as much as the first . |
| 11 | It was , however , his own personality at least as much as the difficulties of the position he had inherited which prevented his following in the footsteps of Louis XIV . |
| 12 | This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant . |
| 13 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 14 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 15 | Some indicators , such as unemployment , may have classified these developments as being at least as deprived as the inner-urban areas , but they did not gain from the inner-city initiative . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
| 17 | In fact the work of fracture , W , turned out to be around 10 4 J/m 2 , which , weight for weight , is at least as good as a ductile steel and a good deal better than ‘ tough ’ composites like fibreglass . |
| 18 | The argue that the quality of management and of the business generally are at least as good as the other media majors and this is not yet reflected , according to them , in the price of the shares . |
| 19 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 20 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 21 | One essential feature of a switching language is that it be at least as specific as the languages to and from which it supports switching . |
| 22 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 23 | Miss Potts looked so disbelieving , Mademoiselle exaggerated the size of the spider and held out her hands to show Miss Potts it was at least as big as a fair sized frog . |
| 24 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 25 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 26 | But future Landsat craft can be expected to carry sensors at least as sensitive as the thematic mapper . |
| 27 | This superb recital illustrates that the art of transcription is , in its finest form , at least as valuable as the art of variation on a borrowed theme . |
| 28 | These contradictions are not recent phenomena but are at least as old as the Labour Party itself . |
| 29 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 30 | Its origins are at least as old as the appointment by St. Paulinus in 627 of James the Deacon to educate the singing boys in York . |