Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that you will give this reply as prominent a place in your paper as you did the original article and we trust that in future you will ring this Company for comment before publishing incorrect material which is misleading and biased . |
| 2 | For example , one ounce of butter or margarine contains as many calories as half a pound of potatoes . |
| 3 | The Business General Manager or their nominated representative will create and maintain in conjunction with each national , territorial or local management as appropriate a list of named local SHE contacts to support the product and process stewards . |
| 4 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 5 | Thus Guide uses a troff style of mark-up : our above example of a Book-title would be stored in a source file as Such a representation makes it easy to write a UNIX script to , say , extract all the Book-title s from a Guide document , sort them into order , and delete duplicates . |
| 6 | Few buildings can be as symbolic of the Roman Empire as the mighty Colosseum in Rome , few sights as good a record of renaissance ingenuity as the cathedral in Florence . |
| 7 | We regard murders committed in this country by terrorists as deserving a minimum of 20 years ' imprisonment for those people . |
| 8 | Is DCF as desirable a form of analysis as the theory of finance implies — especially given criticisms of the technique voiced by some academics in the corporate-strategy area ? |
| 9 | According to the headteacher the intention was ‘ to give as many staff as possible a sense of responsibility of teaching and learning ’ , despite the fact that ‘ as in all schools we have a hierarchical structure of responsibilities ’ . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne gave the matter as grave a consideration as though he were asking her her opinion of the latest exhibition of Japanese art , or Beerbohm Tree 's newest play . |
| 11 | And will advertising play as significant a part in the 1992 election campaign as in 1979 , 1983 or 1987 ? |
| 12 | Now leading the Elf army , Tyrion proved to be every bit as skillful a general as he was a warrior . |
| 13 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |