Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 2 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 3 | All of a sudden several unpleasant consequences of spending a large amount of time alone with fitzAlan , without so much as a spit-boy for chaperon , rose forcibly to her mind . |
| 4 | Different constituents will move through the system at different rates and one time-step in the simulation could represent a day for mobile salts but as much as a millennium for a relatively immobile element such as aluminium . |
| 5 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 6 | Stained peels , when made with great care , have very high resolution and can be as good as a DPT for point counting and studies of diagenesis . |
| 7 | So the wireless is not as good as a lead for that sound . ’ |
| 8 | For example , military pressure-group activity and other involvement in policy-making in liberal democracies may well seem less drastic than mounting a coup , but the implications of less overt forms of military intervention may sometimes be almost as great as a coup for the political process . |
| 9 | But Thomas Carter was from Philadelphia , and his love for Oxford and for England was a pure boyish enthusiasm as innocent as a passion for preserved railways or real ale . |
| 10 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 11 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 12 | And if you think of that and of the kettle that 'll rem that 'll remind you that it 's a K for kettle same as a K for kick . |
| 13 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 14 | Microsoft boasts it could take ‘ as little as a year for Windows NT to surpass other established high-end systems as the platform of choice for corporate networking and high-end business applications . ’ |
| 15 | The haul up from there to the top of the highest bank was several hundred feet of deep heather , pollen-dusty and honey-scented , but as friendly as a hedgehog for a flea . |