Example sentences of "[adj] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 2 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 3 | Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 4 | He had left the warmth of the Blue Boar after the usual extended throwing out time , and now felt elated as the four pints of rough local cider began to work on him . |
| 5 | He certainly had those Maggie thought , broad as the proverbial barn door . |
| 6 | Although he believes the Labour vote is firmer than that of the Conservatives , the cautious conclusion in his camp is that , in the range of possibilities , a Labour majority government has a slight edge over Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 7 | Therefore , perhaps Labour as the largest anti-Protection party , should be allowed to govern . |
| 8 | Does he realise that throughout the country in the election people who care about the Post Office and Post Office services will vote Labour as the only way to preserve a good postal service ? |
| 9 | Davies still looks to Labour as the likeliest carrier for such ideas . |
| 10 | Yamaichi economist Neil MacKinnon said : ‘ The polls suggest we will have a hung parliament , with Labour as the biggest party . |
| 11 | The PPD platform included keeping Spanish as the official language , maintaining a distinct national and cultural identity and separate representation in international sporting events . |
| 12 | Since there was neither oxygen to fuel the processes of decay nor any scavenging animals to feed on the bodies and destroy them , the tiny carcasses remained complete as the settling mud particles slowly entombed them . |
| 13 | and over alleys narrow as the makeshift coffins |
| 14 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 15 | On this last point they were reassured by the Governor 's mention of December 1948 as the outside date for this . |
| 16 | Started in 1935 as the Central Council for Recreative Physical Training , it remains , in spite of the many changes in social attitudes and lifestyle since its inception , a major force in sport and recreation in the UK . |
| 17 | In politics , the Joyces of Rutledge Terrace , Galway , became markedly more loyalist as the Irish rebellion gathered strength . |
| 18 | The nurses watched helpless as the time-delay system — designed to stop prisoners escaping — allowed him into the lobby and on to freedom . |
| 19 | For a moment Donaldson supposed that he was in a stable but no , the smell was wrong , dry and musty and not nearly so strong as the fertile stink of horses . |
| 20 | Iron jaws , strong as the whole earth |
| 21 | The Rover Group emerged in 1986 as the old BL was split up , then British Aerospace stepped in to buy Rover . |
| 22 | And think of that as the upper tonic . |
| 23 | In the end I 'll have to see him , but I want to keep that as the reserve move . ’ |
| 24 | I take that as the hon. Gentleman 's first spending commitment , except that he is making it on behalf of employers and businesses . |
| 25 | In the case of non-resident discretionary trusts the Inland Revenue are effectively increasing the amount of tax due as the flat rate of 35 per cent applies on the combined amount of the dividend and a notional tax credit of 20 per cent rather than simply on the net dividend as before . |
| 26 | That ‘ strange ’ which would be a lazy gesture in another novelist is indeed strange to the reader , strange as the feline , supremely observed young man himself ; and yet he feels the very muscles and skin-surface of Raskolnikov 's smile — a prelude to the way in which the book 's entire action is simultaneously read about and lived through . |
| 27 | Seeming to be merely speckles and punctures at first , actually they were tall as the highest trees . |
| 28 | But he has already said to employees and investors that the option he finds most attractive is keeping IBM intact as the biggest , and hopefully mightiest , firm in its industry . |
| 29 | To his right the ground rose gently towards the southern cliffs and he could see the dark mouth of a concrete pillbox , undemolished since the war , and as seemingly indestructible as the great hulks of wave-battered concrete , remnants of the old fortifications which lay half-submerged in the sand along part of the beach . |
| 30 | Standard-setting for central government is almost entirely the responsibility of the Treasury , taking the Exchequer and Audit Department Act 1866 as the statutory basis . |