Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North Adams mayor John Barrett , who chairs MASSMoCA 's Cultural Development Commission , interprets this as license to take as much time as he needs to find the additional funds . |
| 2 | The report interprets this as society granting landowners monopoly access to a common property resource , and it points out that , with this privilege , comes the moral responsibility to manage the resource for the benefit of society . |
| 3 | Platelet activating factor , first described in 1972 as platelet activating factor has been identified as 1–0-alyl-2–0-acetyl- sn -glycero-3-phosphocholine . |
| 4 | Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon . |
| 5 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 6 | The car in question was a little Renault , and Jenna was interested as Marguerite led her to the garage later and opened it up . |
| 7 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 8 | Even Lloyd George , whose origins were as lowly as Law 's had been , could not stoop to so humble a style , and only Stanley Baldwin ( who drew much of his inspiration from Law ) was able to do so successfully . |
| 9 | The new year started cold and bleak and many of the wharves in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe were standing half empty as trade slumped . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 11 | I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … , " . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , public opinion is steadily turning against one form of cruelty after another as bear baiting , cock fighting , big game hunting , badger baiting and dog fights have in turn been outlawed or become distasteful . |
| 13 | The park 's hippo population has been catastrophically affected , with up to 80 per cent dying as river dried up . |
| 14 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 15 | 45 killed as coach plunges off road |
| 16 | 21 killed as bus swerves into ravine |
| 17 | Five killed as train derails in Holland |
| 18 | The United Nations plans to withdraw its peace-keeping force from Sarajevo saying its task is impossible as violence worsens in Bosnia . |
| 19 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 20 | This , as practised by ordinary mortals rather than professional scribes , can cover everything from neatness to wild illegibility — much as handwriting does today among our nearest and dearest . |
| 21 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 22 | Shame as much as love prompted the denial . |
| 23 | He had a parcel under his arm , and much as Mum pleaded with him he would n't stay . |
| 24 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 25 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 26 | In as much as feminism represented a split within the dominant classes , creating multiple fractures within liberalism , there were many women who carried with them their class perceptions of the ethical and beneficent state . |
| 27 | Although intelligence in the horse is an inherited characteristic , our handling of the horse will affect it as much as handling affects different characteristics of temperament . |
| 28 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 29 | Strangeness solicits me as much as familiarity repels ’ ( If It Die , 253 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ If |