Example sentences of "[adj] as [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine this as because the CCD is n't as big as the original 35mm image area . |
| 2 | Blaney 's intention to produce a study of evil was as clear as if the portrait had been labelled . |
| 3 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 4 | It looked very much as though the Clean-Up Squad was at work . |
| 5 | Heinrich was as horrified as if the Kaiser himself had been insulted . |
| 6 | If the place failed as links the property was a valuable one , and there was no probability in their losing their money and in the meantime they were receiving three per cent which was as good as if the money were invested in Consols . |
| 7 | For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth . |
| 8 | Writing this gain as off load and on load and representing the fedback signal current as because the feedback fraction has conductance dimensions , the situation is as depicted in figure 10.8(c) . |
| 9 | When the coffin was opened , so it is said , the hair and nails had grown and the flesh was glowing pink as though the corpse were alive . |
| 10 | The waiter flurried between them , as busy as if the room were full . |
| 11 | Archaeologists have a clear responsibility : until the information contained in those records is made available to other archaeologists , and to the general public , the excavation is not complete : the information is still as inaccessible as if the site had never been excavated , and the records themselves might just as well be buried . |
| 12 | the wiser as when the camorra |
| 13 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 14 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 15 | If the government then levies a tax on the use of capital in the X sector at the same rate , this means that the choice of factor intensity in that sector is the same as if the factor prices were w and r . |
| 16 | Thus if a bailee negligently allows goods in his charge to be destroyed the plaintiff 's loss is just the same as if the bailee had wrongfully sold them to a third party but there is no conversion because the negligent ( as opposed to deliberate ) destruction is not an assertion of any rights in the goods . |
| 17 | If the magnetic field is moved with a velocity -v the force on the charges is the same as if the wire moved with a velocity v , and we have managed to prove all that from Maxwell 's equations . |
| 18 | Further , erosion does not cease above a nick point , so that the form above that point may not be the same as when the river was rejuvenated , especially if climatic change has occurred . |
| 19 | The sound itself is the same as when a horse answers , ‘ Yes , I 'm here ! ’ , but the sound is also the same as when the horse neighs , ‘ Hurry up with my dinner ! ’ |
| 20 | Well no it 's erm the same as and the stuff . |
| 21 | The main problem then , inevitably when cutting at this distance from your eyes , is to make pruning cuts as clean and precise as when the secateurs are actually in your hand . |
| 22 | This is as much because the D-mark is weak as because the dollar is strong ; the dollar has gained only 8% against the yen . |
| 23 | Well actually , I think they 're more suitable like that as though the insurance companies certainly do n't ! |
| 24 | The Foundation questions whether Project Tiger — set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in the early 70s — can be termed a success , and suggests that tiger numbers in India now might be as low as when the project began . |
| 25 | His tone was suspicious and aggressive as though the institution in question was missing and Zen was suspected of having stolen it . |
| 26 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |