Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 4 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 5 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 6 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 7 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 8 | ‘ Dot so lovely as you might thick , whed there 's dobody to play od theb ! ’ |
| 9 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 10 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 11 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 12 | Another collective title , the Angry Young Men , was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description . |
| 13 | Tonight , Dada and that little girl , whose company he had so much dreaded , had their heads nearly touching as they bent towards each other , she asking , he elaborating . |
| 14 | We 're also doing a lot of work on the component costings , trying to get the best deals possible in order to make the new combo as competitive as possible . |
| 15 | I then put a cream silk backing on the mount , again to keep the overall effect as plain as possible , since I planned to design a fairly full flower combination in the oval aperture . |
| 16 | The company can mend its ways and make cars as reliable as any of its competitors ' , but the reputation lingers on . |
| 17 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 18 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 19 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 20 | In the circumstances of the Occupation , Japan experienced a growing emphasis on material advancement and a wave of foreign influences as great as , if not greater than , anything in the Meiji period . |
| 21 | A player who weaves together the music of his Brazilian roots with influences as diverse as those of Harry ‘ Sweets ’ Edison and Miles Davis , he has now produced three albums of his own and established a distinctive voice in the straight-ahead idiom . |
| 22 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
| 23 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 24 | Of course , as the sidebands build up , they burn their own holes in the gain and refractive-index spectra , and it is not difficult to envisage the development of pulse shapes as complex as those of Fig. 7.6 , or , indeed , period-doubling and chaos in the pulse train : compare the discussion on passive resonators . |
| 25 | Sleek and stylish eternal bands of gold in shapes as timeless as your love |
| 26 | He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . |
| 27 | This woman has a talent as big as her shoulder muscles . |
| 28 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 29 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 30 | To keep the instrument as simple as possible , no voltage regulator has been incorporated to keep the d.c. supply to IC1 at a constant level . |