Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Ebbert added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 3 | Leonora lay hugging a hot-water bottle in the noisy darkness , grateful for the warmth as she listened to the wind howling in counterpoint to the boom of the sea on the rocks below . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I do n't try to shock I do try to make the moment as vividly alive for the audience as I can and that 's a sort of crusade , ’ he admits . |
| 5 | No matter that she had no idea of the story behind the dance , she watched entranced for the half-hour as the orchestra played , fauns cavorted , lovers kissed and villains fought . |
| 6 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 7 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 8 | Canizares , 45 , second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens , is the only player under par on 212 , four under , and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 9 | We told the controller that we 'd keep clear of the storm as were cleared direct to Dinard . |
| 10 | The wind was already driving them clear of the shore as he raised the sails . |
| 11 | The rear of the Toyota was only just clear of the water as I jumped out , checking to see if it would be possible using the low gear to push the rock over the edge . |
| 12 | Commenting on more ghastly figures ( see opposite ) Philips Electronics NV chairman Jan Timmer said the Dutch multinational 's performance in 1992 's fourth quarter , which is normally the strongest of the year as people buy electronic toys for Christmas , was very disappointing , and that no let-up in price erosion had so far been seen for 1993 . |
| 13 | New Zealand 's National Party government unveiled a highly controversial budget on July 30 which severely curtailed the country 's welfare state by designating about one-half of the population as sufficiently affluent to pay for its health , education , housing and retirement needs . |
| 14 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 15 | It bounced back hard and left the pillar splashed with paint and some of the trim as Carson fishtailed the Mercedes out into the road and away from the house . |
| 16 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 17 | ‘ There was nothing wrong with the law as it stood , but plenty wrong with those who abused it . |
| 18 | He spread his arms and he arched his back and he thrust his head as high into the sky as it would go . |
| 19 | Start from a crouched position and jump as high into the air as possible with your arms above your head . |
| 20 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 21 | We 've got to keep working hard and finish as high up the table as possible . |
| 22 | I better put this in the draw as well , otherwise otherwise my antenatal , antenatal clinic later , dad 's |
| 23 | Got this in the garden as well . |
| 24 | Lionel Salter writes : I am indebted to Dr Lionel Sawkins for pointing out that the version of Delalande 's Te Deum recorded by William Christie is not , as stated ( page 31 of the March issue ) the original ( of 1684 ) but the second surviving version made by Philidor l'aîné for the Comte de Toulouse in 1704–06 , which is ‘ as different from the original as it is from the version recorded by Colléaux ’ . |
| 25 | Even so , as Lord Atkin pointed out in Bell v Lever Bros Ltd [ 1932 ] AC 161 ( at p218 ) , a contract may be set aside for mistake as to the quality of the goods if " it is the mistake of both parties , and is as to the existence of some quality which makes the thing without the quality essentially different from the thing as it is believed to be " . |
| 26 | The voice of the wind is as different in the desert as the language of the people . |
| 27 | Examples are circling your arms around from your shoulders ; toe-touching ; standing upright then bending your body sideways to the left then right ; lying on the floor then raising each leg as high in the air as possible ( keeping the leg straight ) . |
| 28 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 29 | The kill rate is four times as high in the dark as during daylight . |
| 30 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |