Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 2 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 3 | Sgt Hayter 's problems were only half over as the height of the museum building was too low to allow assembly inside the building , so R5868 had to be assembled outside . |
| 4 | It certainly seems probable that addictive disease has a genetic element although the strength of that genetic component may vary considerably from one individual to another just as the intensity of short sight or other conditions that are genetically linked may vary in different individuals . |
| 5 | Michael had opened the bedroom window and was half in and half out as the policemen burst into the room . |
| 6 | He was to find himself repeating this often as the days went by . |
| 7 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
| 8 | Born in Limerick a year and a half ago as The Cranberry Saw Us ( shudder ) the three boys decided that they wanted a girl to call their own . |
| 9 | Kino 's international success is pretty doubtful however as the image is nothing new and the lyrics do n't really get through . |
| 10 | We aim to reduce this steadily as the recovery gets under way . |
| 11 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 12 | It needs to be emphasised , however , that just as the clergy 's specialist knowledge of theology , spirituality , worship and pastoral care is to be respected , so too are the musician 's particular skills and qualifications . |
| 13 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 14 | ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . |
| 15 | However , we remind ourselves of the principles outlined earlier in this judgment and the observation of Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest in Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 , 1304 , that ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know if the Guiness is as good at the Imperial anymore as the pub has changed hands ! ! ! . |
| 17 | Indeed ‘ [ w ] e are as restrictive materially as the Victorians were morally ’ , he argues . |
| 18 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 19 | Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane . |
| 20 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 21 | Emilia 's face was white almost as the snow , but she was conscious and moaning now . |
| 22 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 23 | In the same way , the contrasting development of the Western European societies may also become comprehensible only as the outcome of distinctive political , religious or other forces working within a particular mode of production . |
| 24 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 25 | 55 B.C. as every school boy knows was the year that Caesar invaded Britain . |
| 26 | CERN 's technical record is such that few expect them to be insurmountable , though the original specifications for the magnets — two-thirds as powerful again as the SSC 's — may not be met . |
| 27 | Not as powerful yet as the Ping Tiao , nor as rich in its resources , yet significant enough to make him change his plans . |
| 28 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 29 | Strange really as the majority of games early in his career were in mid-field as deputy for E.Gray . |
| 30 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |