Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're becoming ever more popular as tools to repay mortgages in place of endowment policies , while some of the more adventurous plan managers are also building PEPs into school fee and retirement planning . |
| 2 | Historians were as willing as hagiographers to use oral tradition . |
| 3 | Mustard gas , with its C-Cl bonds , should be as easy as VOCs to destroy . |
| 4 | Nowadays there is a large sector which deals with far more high-powered recruitment , and men are as likely as women to find themselves seeking work through an agency . |
| 5 | Females are more prominent among the unemployed for two main reasons : they are disproportionately employed in seasonal work and , as there are now more economically active women than ever before , they are as likely as men to lose their jobs because of recession . |
| 6 | Women are twice as likely as men to get skin cancer and experts put that down to the fact that we 're more fond of sunbathing . |
| 7 | A follow-up of the study made in 1951 by Sir Richard and his colleague Austin Bradford , has found smokers are three times as likely as non-smokers to die in middle age . |
| 8 | Robertson recognised that women in her profession must be twice as good as men to progess as far in their work . |
| 9 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 10 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 11 | The common secret of their fiction , in brief , was to put Wodehouse 's gaiety to a serious purpose , and it was a secret they were happy as strangers to share . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , its paper agrees that ‘ lay members are as able as doctors to recognise and respect the professional principles observed in safeguarding the confidentiality of patients . ’ |
| 13 | Yet most Tories were as concerned as Whigs to protect the Protestant succession , and virtually all supported the Act of Settlement of 1701 , which guaranteed the security of the Protestant monarchy in England by passing the descent of the Crown to the House of Hanover after the deaths of William and Anne . |
| 14 | It is important for people who go blind as adults to retain their literacy . |
| 15 | SUSAN Finley had to be as tough as nails to secure a top job aboard a luxury cruise liner . |
| 16 | Mr Parkinson promised extra security inspectors at airports , some posing as terrorists to test security . |
| 17 | Great creatures roamed the forest , some like bears , others like cattle , reaching up on hind legs that were as thick as oaks to chew leaves and berries from the tops of the trees . |
| 18 | Either way , it looks like women will be as eager as men to invest in a tux for Christmas . |