Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may see this as meaning that reason has less hope of producing convergence in ethics than on factual matters . |
| 2 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 3 | Congestion with throbbing all over and burning ; blood vessels throb and pulsate as do local inflammations ; hammering pains in the head if they move . |
| 4 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 5 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 6 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 7 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 8 | He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms . |
| 9 | These goals never are ( never can be ) so explicit as to exclude all subjectivity in interpreting performance against them . |
| 10 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 11 | Because plans set performance standards and create expectations in the political controllers , they are used to manipulate the external environment as much as to generate internal management commitment . |
| 12 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 13 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 14 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 15 | They behave much as do similar characters found in the epics of other nations . |
| 16 | Ruth 's hair was straight as falling black water . |
| 17 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 18 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 19 | ‘ To us it 's as simple as writing good tunes and having fun , ’ he begins weakly . |
| 20 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 21 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 22 | Relations between the two countries were criticized by Iranian hardliners , however , with former Interior Minister Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi being quoted in a report in Le Monde of June 7 as expressing strong opposition to the Saudi regime . |
| 23 | James Stephen saw abolition in 1807 as having world-wide consequences as well as setting in train ‘ by slow but inevitable steps ’ the extinction of British colonial slavery . |
| 24 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 25 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 26 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 27 | Antislavery thus had a further institutional base but it was thereby also vulnerable as regards united action to the outbreak of warfare amongst religious parties . |
| 28 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 29 | One might , of course , argue that all talk of non-conscious mental processes is so philosophically problematic as to outlaw cognitive psychology in general ( irrespective of whether it uses AI-ideas ) ( Malcolm 1971 ) . |
| 30 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |