Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 2 | As Butler and Stokes point out , " It is difficult not to see this as evidence of the acceptance of the view that British society is divided into two primary classes . |
| 3 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 4 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 5 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 6 | To begin with , your mother should n't oversympathise with her when you go out , as the dog will regard this as approval of her nervous behaviour . |
| 7 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |
| 8 | Golliwog 's Cake Walk , La fille aux cheveux de lin , Porgy & Bess , Danza espagnola , El Amor brujo , a selection of Shostakovich Piano Preludes , a March by Prokofiev , and an original by Michael Thomas all come up fresh as daisies in new string quartet settings . |
| 9 | They looked as fresh as maids in May . |
| 10 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 11 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 12 | The system does not permit the aggregation of bundles from different units of work ( i.e. the original ranges of entries as stored as tables in the archive ) . |
| 13 | Actinomycin D and distamycin were purchased from Sigma and stored as solutions in 10mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0 containing 10mM NaCl . |
| 14 | At the extreme , rogue manufacturers are trying to cash in on this huge market , and have won multi-million pound orders for technologies that may be sound as pieces of machinery but have not been tried adequately in the field . |
| 15 | Flat braid usually looks better if hand-sewn as lines of machine sewing may spoil the finished effect . |
| 16 | Check that the flame traps on the top of the engine are not blocked and the engine air intake filter on the back of the engine is clear as problems in the engine breathing system can lead to oil consumption when working as described . |
| 17 | The message was clear as members of Gloucestershire county council turned up to todays budget meeting , with protestors , anxious over the scale of impending cuts urging councillors to think again before wielding the axe . |
| 18 | The answers were clear as ash in a smouldering grate . |
| 19 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 20 | Kavner is n't clear as crystal on what exactly changed his mind — though he claims it was n't the money — and claims not to know what persuaded Noorda to push it in November when it all started to happen . |
| 21 | There were cases in which bishops were appointed in opposition to the will of a ruler , as when Dynamius , the patrician of Provence , appointed Marcellus as bishop of Uzès , despite royal support for Jovinus . |
| 22 | On the whole they saw the British as allies from the point of view of protection , as insurance against massacre , and as offering opportunities for advancement . |
| 23 | Some observers estimate this to be as high as £200m of public money — and that does n't include the prime location advertising space in London , Southampton and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Payments will be based on black-market rates , said to be as high as £10,000 for a single bird . |
| 25 | Unemployment among graduates runs as high as 85% in many cities . |
| 26 | The expense of twelve lighting points and six socket outlets ( as high as £30 in the mid-1950s when this was being promoted as a desirable minimum ) also deterred some builders . |
| 27 | Since unemployment had risen as high as 23% between the wars the committee did not satisfy everybody who was involved in the full employment discussions . |
| 28 | The Consumers ' Association magazine Which ? said savings were as high as £3 per CD until recently , when the pound was worth about £1.85 . |
| 29 | Some estimates even put it as high as 5% of turnover . |
| 30 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |