Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 2 | " With the ability to adapt itself to the changing requirements of the times , the school still lives , and its reputation stands as high as ever among the inhabitants of Stockport and the surrounding districts , and in educational circles beyond the extended parish of Stockport . " |
| 3 | All this may throw light as well on the diachronic evolution both of the non-past indicative and of the infinitive . |
| 4 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 5 | Ryan Giggs has achieved nearly as much as Best at the same age . |
| 6 | He feared that a management buy-out would leave things on the shop floor very much as before with the ‘ them ’ and ‘ us ’ of workers and managers . |
| 7 | That can not be compromised in any way so I shall still be as hard as ever in the ring . ’ |
| 8 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 9 | This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war , unchanged as yet from the armies of the past . |
| 10 | It claims that it is as unhappy as ever with the reforms : the NHS is still short of cash and the reforms are much too bureaucratic . |
| 11 | I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ? |
| 12 | I think tranquillizers can be useful as well for a very short time limited period . |
| 13 | The soil in this area was as good as anywhere on the island and was noted for potatoes . |
| 14 | In the Tver guberniia conditions in 1926 were as good as anywhere outside a few industrial regions . |
| 15 | Souness , 39 , is training with his first-team squad every day and has warned them he will be as demonstrative as ever in the dug-out . |
| 16 | The structural complexity here is as great as anywhere in the world , with the surface features forming the end point of a series of chemical and physical transformations and movements of the rocks at depth under the influences of high pressures and moderate temperatures . |
| 17 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 18 | The borough 's numerous municipal housing estates and legacy of dockland neighbourhoods house people suffering from levels of deprivation and unemployment as severe as anywhere in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | Or were they a security squad determined to drive some supposed gawping cluster of citizenry below , unsure as yet in the darkness of their rank or affiliation ? |
| 20 | He knelt as erect as ever at the table . |
| 21 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 22 | Forty years ago , the forests along the eastern fringe of the Andes were as inaccessible as anywhere in the world ; but it is there that is found wild cocoa with the greatest genetic diversity . |
| 23 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 24 | Now , as she hurried into the dimly lit tunnel to the ground-floor area where they all parked their cars , she quickened her pace , uneasy as always about the poor lighting and the feeling of being cut off if she should need help . |
| 25 | Harriet asked silently and was as far as ever from an answer . |
| 26 | It was almost a relief when the door opposite suddenly opened and Ettore Di Leonardo appeared , immaculate as ever in a dark suit and sober tie . |
| 27 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 28 | Generally , the same as above minus the religious bits . |
| 29 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 30 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |