Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His name was Tuan Ti Fo and , though he squatted like a young man , his muscles uncomplaining under him , he was as old as the great City itself . |
| 32 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 33 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 34 | Persons of rank hardly needed anything as manifest as an active involvement in lay preaching on the part of the poor to resent the impropriety of an assertion of spiritual equality . |
| 35 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 36 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 37 | On the other hand , the effective independence of the individual contract programmer or analyst is not thereby enhanced , and he remains as dependent as the temporary secretary or typist upon intermediaries ( the agencies ) to provide a flow of work . |
| 38 | It 's about as interesting as a financial report from anybody . |
| 39 | of reduction of er emissions then in fact you have got to reduce the consumption of erm hydrocarbons er as interesting as the Liberal party has said for years but now er pretends it had nothing to do with erm , er V A T on fuel . |
| 40 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 41 | She froze , unable to move suddenly , her body as rigid as the pretty statuette she clung to . |
| 42 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 43 | However , for a variety of reasons animals become less similar as the evolutionary process continues and molecule patterns begin to differ . |
| 44 | The editing bench becomes more crowded as the basic set-up is expanded to include an edit controller , which is used to operate both video machines automatically , and an enhancer to improve the picture quality of the transfer . |
| 45 | An area as vast as the Italian Renaissance , for example , is represented only by a Domenico Campagnola landscape , a ‘ Christ Blessing ’ from the circle of Lorenzo di Credi , a Titianesque boating scene , and a Bassano ‘ Presentation of the Virgin ’ . |
| 46 | IT 'S difficult to be objective about a match that was as one-sided as a two-headed coin . |
| 47 | I find that league table for 14 to 18-year-olds as unintelligible as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 48 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 49 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 50 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 51 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 52 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 53 | There is nothing Perks like so much as a good fight . |
| 54 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 55 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |
| 56 | Detroit , Michigan-based Compuware says the deal will enable it to release CICS fault diagnosis products the same time as new IBM CICS releases , so giving it as much as a three-month lead over its rivals . |
| 57 | Not quite as much as a hot summer 's day . |
| 58 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 59 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 60 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |