Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 4 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 5 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 6 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 7 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 8 | Two beggar children , arms and legs as thin as sticks , stood beside a brazier singing a carol . |
| 9 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 10 | Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% . |
| 11 | The Countess jabbed her walking cane in the direction of a girl with bright gold ringlets and eyes as radiant as sapphires . |
| 12 | She had eyes as blue as cornflowers — ’ |
| 13 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 14 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 15 | The rain fell almost horizontally , its bite as sharp as darts . |
| 16 | But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together . |
| 17 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 18 | People are given the chance to gain a vocational qualification in areas as diverse as catering , working with horses and machinery . |
| 19 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 20 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 21 | It that 's true of a group as conspicuous as hornbills , what does it say about the fate of the great majority of ‘ unglamorous ’ animals on the planet ? |
| 22 | First and foremost though , we want to go back to basics and erm get our ideas absolutely straight as regards what quality is and what we 're trying to achieve with I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 23 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 24 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 25 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 26 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |
| 27 | But selectivity so planned as to celebrate randomness . |
| 28 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 29 | He used to be 100% sure of what was needed … but not only the defensive problems … things so obvious as using Deane and Whelan when he should be using Deane/Wallace . |
| 30 | He was glad to return from Siam in 1907 when he started consulting again , covering topics as diverse as sherardizing and the manufacture of composition billiard balls . |