Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described as unbelievable a suggestion that he had asked staff about drugs at their job interviews . |
| 2 | On 15 November , he wrote to me at 41A Roland Gardens : The Tuesday was duly fixed up , and we prepared as good a meal as the rationing system , still in operation , made possible . |
| 3 | The Turkish-Cypriot administration in the northern part of the island rejected as unacceptable a UN Security Council resolution of Oct. 11 which called for both sides to observe the existing framework for a settlement [ as agreed in April 1989 — see p. 36711 ] which envisaged the establishment of a bizonal federal republic . |
| 4 | For Germany , Agriculture Minister Ignaz Kiechle rejected as insufficient the proposed amount of compensation payments to farmers . |
| 5 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 6 | On June 1 , Yugoslav Prime Minister Ante Markovic condemned as illegal the moves by Croatia and Slovenia to secede . |
| 7 | Now , home from the Caribbean Sea , he was seeking a comfortable spot in which to retire , and Sinkport , with water all around its ancient houses and its church crowning the hill , seemed as good a place as any . |
| 8 | It seemed as good a way of ingratiating myself as any other : the palace was a protective place , and there was no automatic guarantee that a visiting journalist would be granted an audience . |
| 9 | It seemed as good a moment as any for a change of scene . |
| 10 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 11 | I did it for a bet — with one of my uncles , his side being that I would n't stick to anything — and because it seemed as good a way as any of getting away from home , but I was not uninterested and I have not forgotten my subject . ’ |
| 12 | Merrill had known that the battery needed replacing , and with no special plans in view this seemed as good a time as any to get it done . |
| 13 | But in the hazy world she had mysteriously entered it seemed as wise a move as any . |
| 14 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 15 | Their disciplinary record has slowly improved under Bobby Gould and they will point out , correctly , that West Ham played as great a part in the mayhem . |
| 16 | Last June , the European Court of Justice declared as void a 1989 directive on harmonisation of national programmes aimed at elimination of pollution caused by waste from the industry — a particular problem in the North Sea . |
| 17 | To judge from Boswell 's description , Macleod cut as representative a figure of Hebridean or Highland imagery as any folklore could have created , a hero straight out of Scott or Stevenson or Tranter : bearded , ruddy-cheeked , lively-eyed , wearing brogues , tartan stockings , ‘ a black waistcoat , a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord , a yellowish bushy wig , a large blue bonnet with gold thread button ’ . |
| 18 | I threw down my fibreglass extensions and made as polished an exit as possible , given that my huge orange plastic boots were not made for walking . |
| 19 | As late as 1948 , John Newsom , in what R. A. Butler ( the sponsor of the 1944 Education Act ) , described as ‘ wise and humorous recommendations for girls ’ schools ' , favoured as separate a curriculum for girls — grounded in domestic subjects — as any advocated by early twentieth-century eugenicists . |
| 20 | The repression of the Stolypin years took as heavy a toll on the SRs as the SDs and the party suffered a major blow to both its morale and organization in 1908 when E.F . |
| 21 | ‘ Kitty from Cork ’ sang as good a rendering ‘ Bless 'em all , ’ as she struggled with her shyness , as I have heard from some professionals . |
| 22 | Now , without a rope to restrain him , he put as great a distance as possible between himself and the man . |
| 23 | I hope we did as good a job as we were supposed to . |
| 24 | They did a , they did as good a job as the crew chiefs . |
| 25 | Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood . |
| 26 | I hope he had as good a time as I did . |
| 27 | On these grounds he had as good a claim as either the king of Wessex or of León to call himself an emperor ; and his great prestige may well have had something to do with it . |
| 28 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 29 | Blacks had as beneficial a response to the diet as whites ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) , although results in Asians were generally disappointing ( Dodson et al , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Those who passed out successfully had as broad a range of social backgrounds as the original list of applicants — certainly more broadly based than the parliamentary party . |