Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to do this as to suppress anger is to turn our negativity inward . |
| 2 | Struthers and Speight ( 1980 , Ch. 3 ) avoid this as do Howells and Bain ( 1985 , Ch. 3 ) . |
| 3 | Judge Galpin understandably read this as meaning expressio unius exclusio alterius . |
| 4 | The significance of all this as regards locality is that management has clear views about the regions in which these special kinds of worker are to be found . |
| 5 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 6 | Although fans will tell you there is nothing as exciting as attacking football , those who frequent ‘ The Tip ’ have probably never witnessed a game between two attacking sides . |
| 7 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Oh , ’ she pushed Nathan forward , who 'd been hanging sullenly back , making it apparent he thought this visit nowhere near as entertaining as prowling Arcady with the others . |
| 9 | It may turn out not to be the final or the only unit of analysis but , even so , to contend that it were would not be so wildly wrong as treating America as fifty states without mentioning the Federal Government . |
| 10 | The relevant provisions are contained in s.2 of this Act , in particular s.2(2) ( e ) which refers to the provision and maintenance of a working environment for employees , ‘ that is , so far as is reasonably practicable , safe , without risks to health , and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work ’ . |
| 11 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 12 | Barthes 's use of spectator and public as interpreting agents is a rhetorical device , redolent of the style frequently used in political speeches ( ‘ It is quite clear to any reasonable/sensible person that … ’ ) . |
| 13 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 14 | For Gauntlett 's product is that most impeccably British of all motor-cars ( not automobiles ) , the Aston Martin : a car so devastatingly English as to make Rolls-Bentleys seem like Hondas . |
| 15 | A lot of what follows is as painful as pulling teeth . |
| 16 | Kabanos are much thinner than chorizos but are used in much the same way , although the older , drier varieties are popular as chewing sausages . |
| 17 | Surely Lorton would n't be so foolish as to kill Newley ? |
| 18 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 19 | Both he and my own doctor warned me to stop all running for the sake of my health ; their manner was so grave as to imply danger to my life . |
| 20 | The position was however different as regards A and the company , for they had not been charged , and in the view of the deputy judge were in no better or worse position than any other potential witness from whom information and documents were sought for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of the Act . |
| 21 | Where products are transferred from their original containers to more convenient packs those packs should be marked with the contents and be readily identifiable as cleaning material containers . |
| 22 | Trading down from fillet steak to mince or sausages , from Cooper 's Oxford marmalade to supermarket own brand or from real coffee to soft-focus Gold Blend is as much a symbol of the 90s as lengthening dole queues and expanding cardboard box- dwelling communities . |
| 23 | Both as critics and film-makers their creed was so consistent as to encourage producers to contact any of their colleagues , and after the international success of such films as A Bout de Souffle , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Les Quatre Cents Coups , Doniol-Valcroze was able to make his feature debut in 1960 with L'Eau a la Bouche . |
| 24 | The finance departments of many companies are able to create the financial options appropriate as hedging instruments to protect against adverse price movements in their trading commitments . |
| 25 | vague as laundered bloodstains ? |
| 26 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 27 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 28 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 29 | It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam . |
| 30 | Most villagers were encumbered with the huge broods of the day and it was as much as worn parents could do to keep them warm and fed But John 's parents had time to give . |