Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patten/Lawley : You have about 30 seconds Mr Kinnock to tell them why you wo n't say where you stand on this as the other leaders do . |
| 2 | Expressing this as the differential equation leads to the equation of motion of a Maxwell unit |
| 3 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 4 | But there never has been anything as sensible as a planned , rolling programme of electrification . |
| 5 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 6 | The beast was frozen in a running posture and looked as fresh as the proverbial daisy . |
| 7 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 8 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 9 | They found it to be as accurate and reliable as the tritiated thynidine autoradiography technique the gold standard for the histological study of cell proliferation when examining mucosa of the digestive tract . |
| 10 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 11 | The war rages on unabated as the Dark Elves seek to gain access to the Inner Lands and conquer the Holy Shrines . |
| 12 | His second venture into self-mythography is every bit as entertaining as the first , and has the added spice of political and personal deep texture . |
| 13 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 14 | Saussure does say that the two are as inseparable as the two sides of a single sheet of paper , but the very existence of the terms themselves implies the possibility of an independent signified existing prior to its signifier , and therefore capable of being represented by more than one signifier . |
| 15 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 16 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 17 | As high as a 30 storey building , it then extends above a sea level , clearing the 100 year storm level and forms the base structure housing accommodation areas , power plants , processing equipment , helideck and other topside modules . |
| 18 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 19 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 20 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 21 | The findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present one , which was built by the Normans . |
| 22 | But the findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present Norman one . |
| 23 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 24 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 25 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 26 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 27 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 28 | Indeed , 22.4 per cent of the migrants could be defined as return migrants ( Shaw , 1984 ) and although this is n't as high as the 30 to 40 per cent rates recorded in north Norway ( Nicholson , 1975 ) it is much higher than the 5.5 per cent found in northwest Ireland ( Foeken , 1980 ) , and very different from the situation in northern Scotland where Jones et al . |
| 29 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 30 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |