Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 2 | Socks that are too tight can cause as much harm as an inadequate pair of shoes during childhood . |
| 3 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 4 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 5 | But , at the same time , his isolation as an obsolete Communist and policy-maker increased , roughly coinciding with Mr Gorbachev 's emergence as the new-style Communist of world stature . |
| 6 | A Giant will have the same effect on your enemy as a big monster . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , an inacurrate plan that prevails over the verbal description may have the same effect as a verbal misdescription . |
| 8 | Clearly an indemnity of the second type has the same effect as a simple exclusion of liability . |
| 9 | The grant will now have the same effect as a non-distorting conditional non-matching grant of amount 25 ( in units of X ) and the individual will choose to move from E o to E 1 along the income consumption curve ICC . |
| 10 | Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency . |
| 11 | However , a single molecule of starch , consisting of many glucose units joined together , has the same osmotic effect as a single isolated glucose molecule . |
| 12 | The Offset represents the weird and wonderful , and at first glance has the same unsettling effect as an optical illusion . |
| 13 | There must be special praise , however , for Kathryn Hunter , who is not so much an actress as a human chameleon . |
| 14 | One proprietorial hand was laid , light as a priestly blessing , on an old-fashioned microscope in gleaming brass . |
| 15 | There is literally no social arena — from the strongest material relationship to the most subtle moral one — in which the possessing classes and a self-conscious proletariat could take one and the same position and figure as an undifferentiated whole . |
| 16 | Few things in life give as much pleasure as a well-tended garden . |
| 17 | These vivid , compact displays require as much creativity and care , and can give as much pleasure as a formal garden . |
| 18 | The water was as full of peril as an early Spielberg film . |
| 19 | For the contemporary reality of homeworkers bears as much relation to this scene as a Dutch interior does to a squat . |
| 20 | Let us consider such an ethnographer as an invisible witness to a particular speech event . |
| 21 | It contains explicit commitments to Euro-federalism , as well as such anathematised pieces of social law as a European minimum working wage and maximum working week . |
| 22 | They went up another narrow passageway , not so much a passage as a mere slit between houses , and came out suddenly into open space . |
| 23 | In any contractual negotiation with a record company , a good lawyer had become as important to a performer as a good tune , or a good haircut . |
| 24 | But such humanism did not see morality as a passive condition . |
| 25 | Its great efficiency means that bulbs can be very small — a 500-watt halogen bulb is only about 7.5 cm ( 3 in ) long , and about the same thickness as a slim pencil or pen . |
| 26 | The transmitter was on the same wave-length as a passing radio-cab . |
| 27 | The same was true of NEP as a fiscal reform . |
| 28 | It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings . |
| 29 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 30 | This was the first time Panama had attended such a meeting as a full participant , its President Guillermo Endara Galimany guaranteeing Panama 's future active , if " gradual " , participation in the process of Central American integration . |