Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this as its inspirational text , monasticism spread through the Middle East and into Europe . |
| 2 | Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from . |
| 3 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 4 | Four University , four College , and three Polytechnic courses in this category were described , involving 26 staff , only three of whom were not doing this as their main concern , and all of whom had appropriate degree qualifications . |
| 5 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 6 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 7 | That , coupled with an estimated 50 million working days a year lost to smoking-related illness , means companies now list smoking as their main health concern for male employees and second most important , after VDU and computer worries , for women . |
| 8 | In 1923 Gresley became chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern , the second largest group railway , formed from six individual companies , with Bulleid as his personal assistant . |
| 9 | Not as funny as its box-office receipts might suggest |
| 10 | Receptionist Amanda France , 23 , said : ‘ It 's not as funny as his other films but I still laughed out loud . ’ |
| 11 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 12 | " Basil and Rosemary " — their names were as inseparable as their professional endeavours . |
| 13 | Indeed , the probability is ( one survey shows that 41 per cent of people name speaking in public as their greatest fear ) that just under half of them do not enjoy presenting . |
| 14 | The leading accountants , KPMG , has now adopted English as its world-wide company language ; reports , board meetings and contracts have to be in English . |
| 15 | Intergraph uses English as its corporate language throughout the world . |
| 16 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 17 | While not as popular as his Second Concerto ( what is ? ) , the First is a fine romantic work . |
| 18 | IBM will position PC-DOS as its low-end operating system , OS/2 2.0 and the planned microkernel Workplace OS as mid-range systems , and AIX 3.0 Unix as an option for workstations and large multiprocessing computers . |
| 19 | Let me show you that all men are n't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker . |
| 20 | Of course , there may be other reasons why it is not so detailed as our visual image . |
| 21 | MIDDLESBROUGH , who have appointed former England fly half Alan Old as their first team coach for next season , introduce Scot Duncan McNaughton for their final game at Wharfedale on Saturday . |
| 22 | The enormous table around which the politburo was supposed to meet would have required the members to shout at each other across oak as old as their collective age . |
| 23 | Their level of operation , however , is quite different as their irregular profits serve to keep them only slightly above subsistence level . |
| 24 | In the third year , honours students with German as their major subject spend a minimum of eight months in a German-speaking country , either as a student , or as a part-time assistant in a school , or , if they are taking a joint degree , most probably attending courses at a university . |
| 25 | No lovemaking had ever been as erotic or as liberating as their half-illicit couplings on unyielding sand within yards of the crashing tide . |
| 26 | Zuckerman 's relationship with his brother Henry is , in contrast , often sanguinary , as gruesome as their respective operations . |
| 27 | Though almost as crowded as her previous transport , the water-bus was a great deal more pleasant . |
| 28 | How much the cost estimates are padded or pared and how much profit is built in will reflect the company trading position as much as its technical ability . |
| 29 | She was paid as much as her male colleagues , and earned every penny . |
| 30 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |