Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for example , in the case of such a social group as a ball team , the team is the generalized other in so far as it enters as an organized process or social activity — into the experience of any one of the individual members of it . |
| 2 | She was as much an old friend as a lover , or future wife … ’ |
| 3 | Such a transitory career as a rabbi suggests to me a new saying — ‘ sick humorists transit ingloriously ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 5 | At one time , this rating was credited with almost as much scientific objectivity as a person 's blood group , but now its use is generally limited to self-diagnosis questionnaires in Sunday supplements . |
| 6 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 7 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 8 | We open on Thursday and at the moment we 've made about as much noise as a fart in a hurricane . ’ |
| 9 | Ideally , you should look on such money as a bonus and should save or invest it . |
| 10 | There was no legislation to enforce the use of the safety lamp and many miners did not like it because it did not give out as much light as a candle . |
| 11 | The headlights , in their blackout cowls , threw about as much light as a candle , and finally they went off the road . |
| 12 | Arguing with him had about as much effect as a snowflake falling on a pond . |
| 13 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 14 | In your twenties , you took as much exercise as a woodworm . |
| 15 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 16 | It was the altar — stuffed with as much clutter as a belle epoque boudoir — that really made me think . |
| 17 | Not that this would necessarily matter in itself , but the music they 're producing is dour , grey monotonous and generally about as much fun as a dose of the clap and a tenth as infectious . |
| 18 | So too does the humour in the Company Sergeant Major 's patter as he demands and gets higher and higher standards — ‘ Mr Smith , sir , at drill you are as much use as a window cleaner in Beirut . ’ |
| 19 | Johnny Kelly turned him inside out , dizzied him , nutmegged him , played with him like a yo-yo and when Ramsey finally collapsed in the mud as Kelly cut inside him , a voice on the terraces said : ‘ Ramsey , tha'rt about as much use as a chocolate teapot . ’ |
| 20 | For the average distance runner fat is about as much use as a pocket watch . |
| 21 | He is in such demand as a speaker that he has had to make a rule that he will no longer accept invitations to functions that are unconnected with the coal industry . |
| 22 | The lesson , I think , there is to pick a course that will create the sort of environment in which performance can be maximised , rather than to pick something which appeared to have more vocational use , but may not be as good for the individual student as a course that he or she will enjoy . |
| 23 | He was no such prodigy as a cricketer , but made the Warwickshire side as an attacking bat and top-class fielder . |
| 24 | But it was not helped by such petty interferences with ordinary life as a decree of 1781 which forbade young men under the age of twenty-eight to travel abroad , or another of 1789 which forbade the granting of a marriage licence to peasant couples unless they could prove that they had already enriched the state by planting a number of fruit trees . |
| 25 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 26 | It is important , though , that the fears of clinicians who see such information as a threat and prelude to cost containment are addressed . |
| 27 | The point was briefly touched upon again by Lord Denning in Potters-Ballotini Ltd v Weston-Baker [ 1977 ] RPC 202 where he said " although a man must not use such information as a springboard to get a start over others , nevertheless that springboard does not last for ever " . |
| 28 | The hospital 's duty to maintain hygiene and protect the health of other patients would entitle the hospital to demand acceptance of such care as a condition for remaining in the hospital . |
| 29 | But Equity treated such pressure as a ground for holding the transaction voidable . |
| 30 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |