Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When confronted with the excesses of the anti-French mobs in 1808 it was almost natural that such men , with fear as much as hope in their hearts , should become supporters of French rule . |
| 2 | In between there are some great dopey male bonding scenes with Pitt and black buddy Calvin Levels ( eg the attempt to decide whether or not to move in with Yvonne ) , plus some not-so-hot episodes with Nick Cave ( crap as usual as platinum rocker Freak Storm ) . |
| 3 | In general such transformations involved secularization as much as professionalization and operated not only inwards towards the academy but also outwards towards a new constituency : the nation as a whole . |
| 4 | This rule needs to be changed , so as to allow the unemployed to draw benefit as long as unemployment lasts , providing that claimants have not refused jobs they were offered without good cause , and are prepared to go on training schemes . |
| 5 | With initial allocations of income at point 1 on for B and for A , there are clearly gains from trade to be had from the lowering of both incomes as long as adjustment is contained within the usual rugby ball shape . |
| 6 | Advertisements showed a cow 's udder next to a bottle of the prepared milk , and claimed the Department of Health had recommended the product as better than cow 's milk for babies older than six months . |
| 7 | There are local sceptical arguments of this strongest type , as we shall see in chapter 5 ( our knowledge of other minds ) ; and in our discussion of our knowledge of the past and of the future ( chapters 10 and 11 ) we shall have to bear in mind arguments that it is impossible to conceive of an event as other than present , i.e. as being in the past or in the future . |
| 8 | The largest opposition party , the Movement of Democratic Socialists ( MDS ) led by Mohammed Moada , had been the first to opt for a boycott , on the grounds that the elections represented only a limited pluralist opening as long as parliament and the media continued under RCD control . |
| 9 | Novello , who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel , was to join with Cutts ' assistant , Alfred Hitchcock , in demonstrating that adapted stageplays did n't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms . |
| 10 | The cancer was not eliminated , but its growth ceased , and for many years could be prevented from spreading to distant tissues as long as treatment with hormones continued . |
| 11 | The triangle Greece-Rome-Judaea is still at the centre and is likely to stay at the centre as long as Christianity remains the religion of the West . |
| 12 | New Scientist sailed on with a discussion of the Roman Catholic Church 's acceptance of science as long as science accepted miracles and where did that leave both sides . |
| 13 | With hair as long as mine it 's just impossible without one — I did n't have one for three weeks . |
| 14 | Environment Minister Hans Alders acknowledged that , partly due to the high installation cost , wind power is at present as expensive as coal or nuclear power . |
| 15 | Previously , on Nov. 29 , 1989 , a communiqué released in Johannesburg by the PAC and its internal allies following a weekend conference in Harare , had rejected out of hand negotiations with the South African regime as long as apartheid legislation remained on the statute books . |
| 16 | There can be no understatement ; we can not describe these events as other than evil . |
| 17 | Adjust power as necessary as speed reaches the required figure . |