Example sentences of "[adj] as [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This resulted in some success in lowering dolphin mortality , but it is still at least twice as high as during daylight hours . |
| 2 | The bed lies at about present high tide level , so that there is no indication of marine action at levels as high as at present . |
| 3 | However , arrested development may also occur as a result of both acquired and age immunity in the host and although the proportions of larvae arrested are not usually so high as in hypobiosis they can play an important part in the epidemiology of nematode infections . |
| 4 | Cripps gave his name to an era of austerity , queues , shortages and high income tax ( 9s. 6d. in the pound again in 1951 , almost as high as in wartime ) , flattening the peaks of the income range and lopping off any surviving Matterhorns . |
| 5 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
| 6 | ‘ Would I be so foolish as to blaspheme ? |
| 7 | The one really radical innovation was the replacement in Britain of sickness insurance by the National Health Service ( NHS ) , free as of right without means test or contribution ( although prescription charges were introduced in 1950 ) . |
| 8 | Even when they are blanks , sightless as in sculpture , they focus the attention hypnotically . |
| 9 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 10 | A 12 Step approach to treatment for addiction to these substances is as appropriate as for addiction to any other drug . |
| 11 | We will protect private pensions , and increase the basic state pension , making it payable as of right without means testing . |
| 12 | The attendance allowance , being payable as of right , must be declared as income for tax purposes , but any expenses wholly and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duty ( and not otherwise reimbursed ) may be set off against it . |
| 13 | An objective for a partnership of ‘ bringing industry and education closer together ’ is worse than useless , it is dangerously vague as to meaning and intention . |
| 14 | When labour supply is completely inelastic as in Figure 16–4 , income tax does not induce any distortion at all and there will be no allocative gain in reducing income tax rates . |
| 15 | The answer is : rear as in diarrhoea . |
| 16 | 13.2.2.2 such consent shall not otherwise be unreasonably restrictive as to content , and |
| 17 | The problem is as much to do with content as with form . |
| 18 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 19 | 61 is instructive as to date . |
| 20 | The Demon 's a bad mutha , although the time limit 's not as tight as on Intermission 3 . |
| 21 | You 'll be home almost as quick as by car . ’ |
| 22 | Transmission from man to woman is about twice as likely as from woman to man . |
| 23 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 24 | This means that systems 5 and 6 exhibit an unusual decrease in solubility as the temperature rises , and the cloud-point curve is now inverted as in area B. The corresponding critical temperature is located at the minimum of the miscibility curve and is known as the lower critical solution temperature ( LCST ) . |
| 25 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 26 | If we restrict the analysis to the plausible assumption of risk-averse workers then , if union fees are constant as in Assumption 3 , stable membership is . |
| 27 | He 's newly made the king 's lieutenant here in North Wales , now we 're as good as at war . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Are we as good as at war ? ’ she asked , and there was no way of knowing whether she laughed or was alarmed behind the widow 's veil . |
| 29 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
| 30 | By contrast equatorial forests lack extreme seasonal variation ; where productivity varies little during the year the resource fluctuations are never so great as in savannah or temperate regions . |