Example sentences of "[adj] as [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’ |
| 2 | Not so big and showy as on a knitting machine , but there are two metal rods sticking up — enough for any self respecting machine to us as a radio aerial ! |
| 3 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 4 | I said , he eats about a as much as much as like a corn packet ! |
| 5 | And a cuppa is never so welcome as at a rest stop en route . |
| 6 | Again , a Rule 72 Transfer is equally applicable as between a leasehold or freehold property . |
| 7 | Ader Tajan , the company in which Jacques Tajan is a partner along with auctioneers , brothers Remi and Antoine Ader , is expected to record business of FFr319 million for 1992 as against a target of FFr350 million and nearly three times as much when the market peaked in 1989 . |
| 8 | In general , the staff/student ratio is rarely as good as in a school for children and young people with severe learning difficulties . |
| 9 | Wexford put the lights on and behind the streaming glass the sky looked black as on a winter 's night . |
| 10 | At times she is whimsical as on a visit by Princess Margaret to Jamaica in 1955 : ‘ May I go on record once and for all — I hate to bend the knee , except to God , and even then not too often . ’ |
| 11 | Tenure is now only important as between a lessor for a term of years and his lessee . |
| 12 | Several of the rotor 's advantages were immediately apparent : because of its axial symmetry the position relative to the wind is not at all as critical as with a sail . |
| 13 | He had a thick crop of wiry hair the colour of good toffee , and heavy eyelashes many shades darker , as lavish as on a Jersey cow , fringing golden-brown eyes of such steady and limpid sincerity that she felt certain he could not possibly be just what he seemed . |
| 14 | For example , no neuron behaves like a RAM chip , and synapses do not appear to be symmetric as in a Boltzmann machine . |
| 15 | In her mind , vivid as on a television screen , she replayed her moment of triumph . |
| 16 | If the pipe has frozen , the ice ‘ plug ’ is almost certainly outside , and the solution is the same as for a supply pipe — that is , the application of heat . |
| 17 | As far as " goods " are concerned , the situation is the same as with a sale of goods contract because the definition of goods excludes things in action of which copyright is an example . |
| 18 | Much the same as In a family . " |
| 19 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 20 | We have drunk up , demure as at a grace , Pollutions from the brimming cup of wealth ; Contemptuous of all honourable rule , Yet bartering freedom and the poor man 's life . |
| 21 | He felt that if he waltzed his dancers round and round as in a ballroom he would not be interpreting Chopin 's idealised romantic waltzes for a solo pianist . |
| 22 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 23 | There was Sibylle 's older brother Georg in the peaked cap of the German army officer — as darkly glamorous as in a war movie . |