Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 2 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 3 | In the centre of the room stood an extremely well-tended brazier before which sat two men in low conversation with broke off as the door opened . |
| 4 | Northern Ireland , as part of the United Kingdom , shared in that significantly as the old Celtic Christian church sent missionaries throughout the continent , and there were Ulstermen in the Napoleonic war and both world wars . |
| 5 | These were mostly dealt with from 1800 onwards as the high prices of the war years brought more and more marginal land into cultivation . |
| 6 | It certainly seems probable that addictive disease has a genetic element although the strength of that genetic component may vary considerably from one individual to another just as the intensity of short sight or other conditions that are genetically linked may vary in different individuals . |
| 7 | ( fl. 1260–1278 ) , cartographic patron , is known for certain only as the author or at least the patron of the late thirteenth-century world map preserved in Hereford Cathedral . |
| 8 | At 2.00 p.m. as the doors opened before the flood of Medau girls surging through , the 1979 reunion was once again set in motion ; one thousand tickets sold and every one being used . |