Example sentences of "[adj] as [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms . |
| 4 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 5 | Ruth 's hair was straight as falling black water . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ To us it 's as simple as writing good tunes and having fun , ’ he begins weakly . |
| 8 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I simply said I could n't picture you doing anything as unglamorous as helping wee ones count to ten . ’ |
| 13 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 14 | Given the rise in Berlin property prices , choosing a site is as important as getting major funding . |
| 15 | NCR is expected to position Top End 2.0 as protecting current investments in IBM Corp hardware and software , including CICS environments , and easing the transition from legacy systems . |
| 16 | For example , in In re Tucker ( R. C. ) ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Tucker ( K. R. ) [ 1990 ] Ch. 148 , where the application of the Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 principle was urged , this court declined to construe the words ‘ any person ’ in section 25 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as embracing British subjects wherever they might be , and held that the power given to the court by that section to summon persons before it was even more limited and extended only to persons who were available to be served in England . |
| 17 | This is why answering doubt is not the same as dispensing theological prescriptions . |
| 18 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |
| 19 | ‘ It was not the same as doing 100 mph on the motorway . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 21 | So long as women are subordinate to men , their language will continue to be stereotyped as indicating natural subservience , unintelligence and immaturity . |
| 22 | Your Committee have appointed Mr D H Young as Acting Honorary Secretary until Ken Lucas is able to return to duty . |
| 23 | This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process . |
| 24 | So you re you regard that as providing some flexibility ? |
| 25 | That 's sufficient in law , although at least 20 years is desirable as validating old recitals of title , etc . |
| 26 | There is nothing quite as bad as watching other people eat and drink what you are trying to avoid . |
| 27 | I think there 's a danger that you can go over the top with praise , in that you 're anxious to give quality feedback , the thing that you have to be careful with is that it 's not just meaningless like that , because that can be just as bad as giving negative feedback . |