Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing this as the differential equation leads to the equation of motion of a Maxwell unit |
| 2 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 3 | The beast was frozen in a running posture and looked as fresh as the proverbial daisy . |
| 4 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 5 | They found it to be as accurate and reliable as the tritiated thynidine autoradiography technique the gold standard for the histological study of cell proliferation when examining mucosa of the digestive tract . |
| 6 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 7 | Irish gardens are islands of perfection in a landscape of empty fields as rough and tussocky as a moulting dog . |
| 8 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 9 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 10 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 11 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 12 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 13 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 14 | Whatever his sins , he was being forced to pay for them in public — well , as public as the Secret Service ever wanted to get . |
| 15 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 16 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 17 | They are just as tasty as the real thing ! |
| 18 | To my unadapted eyes the scene looked as bleached-out as an over-exposed snapshot . |
| 19 | So the greatcoat is sometimes as light as the traditional mac . |
| 20 | Theoretically you were as free as the common snipe to go in any direction you pleased . |
| 21 | We were quite misty-eyed as the very workaday Amity came past . |
| 22 | The inner flesh was as raw as a recent wound , and clear resin had oozed to the surface , trickled down and set into sticky pink runnels . |
| 23 | Officials argue that the rise in the yen , so far , is nothing like as steep as the near doubling of the currency which occurred after the 1985 Plaza Accord . |
| 24 | The main problem with this solution is that a public sector monopoly can be as x-inefficient as a private sector one , and may be more so , as the market sanction of bankruptcy has been removed . |
| 25 | They apply to both county and voluntary aided schools although the extent of change for the latter is less marked as the governing body was already the official employer of most staff at the school . |
| 26 | For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature , as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon . |
| 27 | ‘ Depression is as universal as the common cold . |
| 28 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 29 | These contradictions are not recent phenomena but are at least as old as the Labour Party itself . |
| 30 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |