Example sentences of "as [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the education department and councillors alike have constantly striven to provide a high standard of education for as rich and diverse a society as one can imagine . |
| 2 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 3 | to accept as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the achievement and maintenance of as high and stable a level of employment as possible , with a view to the attainment of full employment . |
| 4 | Restrop is of as perfect and pure a style as Elizabethan houses of this size ever reached . |
| 5 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
| 6 | Lead Versus Health , edited by Michael Rutter and Robin Russell Jones , is written in a much more scientific and reasonable manner , and its 15 chapters , by various experts who are well-known as researchers in this field , give as comprehensive and impartial a survey of the evidence ( including new evidence ) as we are likely to get from any source . |
| 7 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |
| 8 | It was as thoughtful and generous an invitation as King Hussein sending us down to Petra and Aqaba . |
| 9 | We wanted the co-operation of the public so it was important to convey the clues in as relaxed and conversational a way as possible . |
| 10 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 11 | His solution is the pragmatic one , common at the time , which involves establishing as large and vague a syllabus as possible and leaving a great deal of choice to students . |
| 12 | So , with such an attractive product as the Rugby World Cup available , it was extremely important that TSL secure as large and widespread a viewing audience as possible . |
| 13 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 14 | Does it also present as natural and inevitable the fact that for many working people the concept of a ‘ weekend ’ is nothing to do with ideas of rest and leisure with family or friends ? |
| 15 | This is as fine and ambitious a novel as any from a Scottish writer since the 1960s . |
| 16 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 17 | Equally funny is her son Laurence , doing his military service , whose deft seduction of a nursemaid would probably be as useful and practical a guide to intending seducers as the famous chapters in Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 18 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 19 | And even if it were , there are no grounds to suppose that a person with mental handicap can not and will not live as happy and enjoyable a life as anyone else in society . |
| 20 | Diver deployment in the 90s , in the offshore oil and gas industry , has determined that divers should enter and leave the water in as safe and speedy a manner as possible . |
| 21 | Two other changes brought about by the 1988 Act make it important that other aspects of policy are also managed in as full and collegial a manner as possible . |
| 22 | I will try to do it in as full and responsible a way as possible . |
| 23 | As long as shareholders are principally distant institutions , it will become ever more important to ensure that the annual auditing of accounts is done in as independent and thorough a way as possible ; if shareholders wished , that audit could then be extended into more general strategic matters . |
| 24 | In order to obtain as uniform and homogeneous a texture as possible the principle known as ‘ dovetailing ’ is used . |
| 25 | The professional , however , will wish to express the notion in as general and concise a way as possible . |
| 26 | It is an important part of your role as an interviewer to help the candidate relax enough to show himself or herself in as accurate and good a light as possible . |
| 27 | Denis Norden was as delightful and urbane a guest as Don Black had been , but this time I could actually hear and respond to what he was saying . |
| 28 | John Heritage , an avant-garde poet , reveals the heart of a Rassendyll when Saskia appears to call forth his chivalrous pity ; her absent fiancé Alexis , toughened by circumstances as an exile in Australia , is as regal and remote a figure as the villain Paul Abreskov , impelled to crime through the bitterness of physical imperfection but magnificent as a ‘ lost angel ’ . |
| 29 | The conifers are as varied and successful a group of plants today as they have ever been . |
| 30 | Learning from successes is just as valid and useful a process as learning from mistakes ( see page 110 ) . |