Example sentences of "[adj] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing this as the differential equation leads to the equation of motion of a Maxwell unit |
| 2 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 3 | The beast was frozen in a running posture and looked as fresh as the proverbial daisy . |
| 4 | They found it to be as accurate and reliable as the tritiated thynidine autoradiography technique the gold standard for the histological study of cell proliferation when examining mucosa of the digestive tract . |
| 5 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 6 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 7 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 8 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 9 | Whatever his sins , he was being forced to pay for them in public — well , as public as the Secret Service ever wanted to get . |
| 10 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 11 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 12 | They are just as tasty as the real thing ! |
| 13 | So the greatcoat is sometimes as light as the traditional mac . |
| 14 | Theoretically you were as free as the common snipe to go in any direction you pleased . |
| 15 | We were quite misty-eyed as the very workaday Amity came past . |
| 16 | Officials argue that the rise in the yen , so far , is nothing like as steep as the near doubling of the currency which occurred after the 1985 Plaza Accord . |
| 17 | They apply to both county and voluntary aided schools although the extent of change for the latter is less marked as the governing body was already the official employer of most staff at the school . |
| 18 | For the whole of central Beirut was being gradually reclaimed by nature , as overgrown as the political system which had so regularly betrayed Lebanon . |
| 19 | ‘ Depression is as universal as the common cold . |
| 20 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 21 | These contradictions are not recent phenomena but are at least as old as the Labour Party itself . |
| 22 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 23 | His name was Tuan Ti Fo and , though he squatted like a young man , his muscles uncomplaining under him , he was as old as the great City itself . |
| 24 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 25 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 26 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the effective independence of the individual contract programmer or analyst is not thereby enhanced , and he remains as dependent as the temporary secretary or typist upon intermediaries ( the agencies ) to provide a flow of work . |
| 28 | of reduction of er emissions then in fact you have got to reduce the consumption of erm hydrocarbons er as interesting as the Liberal party has said for years but now er pretends it had nothing to do with erm , er V A T on fuel . |
| 29 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 30 | She froze , unable to move suddenly , her body as rigid as the pretty statuette she clung to . |