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 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The war rages on unabated as the Dark Elves seek to gain access to the Inner Lands and conquer the Holy Shrines . |
| 11 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 12 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 13 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present Norman one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If it goes as high as an additional half a million each year then the structural management fund will not last through the three years . |
| 24 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 25 | Whatever his sins , he was being forced to pay for them in public — well , as public as the Secret Service ever wanted to get . |
| 26 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 27 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 28 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 29 | They are just as tasty as the real thing ! |
| 30 | A tankard on the compartment table sits as a reminder of the glories of Soviet technology — sputniks and rockets spin out of a world inhabited by the Spassky Tower and an olive branch — and , as if to demonstrate that the mundane is as attainable as the sublime , not a spoon rattles , not a single drop of sweet Georgian tea is spilt , as the carriage is smoothly elevated and the task of fitting a Chinese-gauge undercarriage is taken in hand . |