Example sentences of "[adj] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | payable as the first instalment , as when buying on hire-purchase . |
| 2 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 3 | Another marriage — probably as chill and loveless as the last — or a comparable prison in her father 's house . |
| 4 | ‘ Easy now , ’ Alec was more relaxed as the last of the metal dropped into the sand . |
| 5 | And as their noise surged , discordant as the first squall of wind on a calm day , Rain Morgan sensed a figure in the row behind her . |
| 6 | Among the pioneers teaching before Pavlova 's arrival , the most important was Helen Webb ( whose father was famous as the first man to swim the English Channel ) . |
| 7 | That was a quarrel which went back to at least 720 BC , when the athlete Orsippos of Megara , more famous as the first man to run nude in the Olympic Games , ‘ freed ’ some borderland from the Corinthians ( Hicks and Hill , no. 1 ) . |
| 8 | It shows the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] and was important as the first popular book on design to show readers how to create designs themselves . |
| 9 | all horribly romantic as the first , |
| 10 | ‘ Family physicians ’ enjoy the most extraordinary regard in our society : somewhere in our joint head we need to see them as knowing , honest , trustworthy , benign and caring folk — the truth of the matter being that they are as forgetful , spiteful and drunk as the next person — and as likely to grow old , lecherous and incompetent as anyone else . |
| 11 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |
| 12 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 13 | Think of the passer-by in George Street , main artery of Edinburgh 's Golden Mile , famed as the second citadel of Mammon in Europe . |
| 14 | For complete ( new ) programs , you should include the BBCBASIC(Z80) command NEW as the second line of the file . |
| 15 | — Odour potent as the first |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp has signed Lechmere Inc as the first independent direct retailer for its line of printers for MS-DOS and the Mac . |
| 17 | Unix International last week described SunSoft Inc as the first reference technology supplier to be chosen under its new expanded technology selection process ( UX No 422 ) . |