Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 2 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 3 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 4 | ‘ And are you , or are you not , sick as a parrot or over the moon respectively , about increased charges for changing rooms and pitches ? ’ |
| 5 | Guarantees are , however , only as good as the people or businesses giving them . |
| 6 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 7 | And then as long as the pianist or the accordionist know the tune I 'm alright |
| 8 | While not as flexible as an overdraft or the Managed Rate Facility , they offer the advantages of : cheaper borrowing , especially as adding Barclays name to a bill provides you with the finest rates available on the Discount Market . |
| 9 | It can be as utilitarian as the rigid polyurethane foam commonly used in the reinforcement of GRP bodyshells , or as elegant as the aluminium or Nomex honeycombs employed in pukka aerospace sandwich materials ( as seen recently through holes in the wings of Tornado jets involved in the Gulf conflict ) . |
| 10 | But whereas film industries as vital as the French or American could absorb this new development , the British industry was put into a straitjacket by it . |
| 11 | It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars . |
| 12 | In other words a fat calorie was exactly the same as a carbohydrate or a protein calorie . |
| 13 | The regulation need not be as thorough as the bank or building society variety . |
| 14 | A virus is as impersonal as a bullet or a shell . |
| 15 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 16 | This trowel is every bit as strong as a knife or bayonet , and will easily prize up any large stones ( I have done this often , even in rock-hard clay ) . |