Example sentences of "[adj] as an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For the same reason , French as an option within the Postgraduate Certificate continued to recruit well throughout the seventies ) . |
| 2 | In his gripping TV drama about Anthony Blunt : ‘ A Question of Attribution ’ he described the painting thus : ‘ The apostles , oblivious to all considerations but those of perspective , are fast asleep on ground as bare and brown as an end of the season goal mouth , this sleep signifying indifference . |
| 3 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 4 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 5 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 6 | It was an exercise in self-congratulation from the leader of the self-proclaimed Land of Liberty as much as an expression of solidarity with the oppressed . |
| 7 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 8 | Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather . |
| 9 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 10 | Previous SDS-sequestration studies using synthetic oligonucleotides have suggested that a proximal G or distal C increases the rate of dissociation from GC sites by as much as an order of magnitude [ 19 ] . |
| 11 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 12 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |
| 13 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 14 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 15 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 16 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a battle was regarded by many as an invitation to God to intervene in human affairs , and God had the disconcerting habit of bringing defeat upon those who faced the prospect of victory with overconfidence . |
| 18 | Although it was taken by many as an attack on history as such , it was the critique of Marxist historicism initiated by Althusser that enabled new political possibilities in this direction . |
| 19 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 20 | She was blind as an owl in daylight without glasses : therefore nothing to look at . |
| 21 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 22 | The Law Society becomes a recognizing authority under the new scheme and so will be able to recognize a solicitor as qualified as an advocate in a particular court or courts , again subject to rules on education , training and conduct which will parallel the arrangements for the Bar . |
| 23 | Those who see the former as an end in itself … insofar as they comprise the present leadership of the NICRA … may be expected to lose interest as rights are gained . |
| 24 | An intent ‘ not to lose ’ , is NOT the same as an intent to ‘ get a draw ’ . |
| 25 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 26 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 27 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 28 | As little as an hour of your time would be appreciated . |
| 29 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 30 | Her face became as bright as an icon as if she had momentarily glimpsed the old customs of Irkutsk : a bridal party bearing skates of bone and bodices of the finest needle-point standing on the southern shore and looking across Baikal ; a sallow-faced groom from Chita smoothing his first moustache and pacing the deck of an ice-locked paddle-steamer . |