Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in general terms er there was no big mannerisms or faults as far as I can see , there 's very good eye contact er throughout er you , you kept the person 's attention . |
| 2 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 3 | Fine , attribute it to your aftershave for all I care , as long as you recognize that opportunities as encouraging as those you now face do n't crop up every day . |
| 4 | When researchers look at schooling from the point of view of girls , it is perhaps not surprising that writers as diverse as Alison Kelly and Valerie Walkerdine can come up with very similar findings . |
| 5 | Another important exception can be found in Grieco 's ( 1987 ) data on the use of kin networks to secure employment , where she found that relatives as distant as cousins were as likely to be involved as close kin in arrangements which brought a number of male and female kin into the same workplace or firm . |
| 6 | Steele 's starting point was that slaves as much as all other men were subject to the law of human behaviour which said that conduct could be modified through the deployment of rewards and punishments ; the point of his experiment was to offer rewards to his slaves for defined tasks when in the past they had primarily experienced punishment . |
| 7 | It is truly — and intellectually — heart-warming that music as hook-free and unfeathered as Spiritualized 's could elicit such a sporting , involved response from a bunch of lumber tops and nose-pin rebels . |
| 8 | In Spring Fever — The Precarious Future of Britain 's Flora and Fauna , he warns that species as varied as bluebells , mountain hares and the great raft spider — currently the subject of a reintroduction programme by English Nature — will be among the casualties . |
| 9 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 10 | First , we have evidence from Renée Baillargeon ( see the Bremner volume referred to above ) that babies as young as three or four months are able to ‘ represent ’ , in some sense , the continuing existence of an invisible object behind a screen because they show ‘ surprise ’ when this out-of-sight object does not resist the backwards movement of the screen . |
| 11 | Recent research has shown that babies as young as 6 months comprehend changes in the direction of gaze of an adult as a signal . |
| 12 | A Home Office Advisory Working Group , chaired by Judge Pigot , on the question of children 's evidence will report imminently and is expected to recommend that children as young as four or five should be allowed to give evidence if a judge rules that they are competent . |
| 13 | The present limit for adult viewing is 9pm — but they fear that children as young as 12 are still viewing after that . |
| 14 | Golinkoff and her colleagues ( 1985 ) showed that children as young as two years made this assumption . |
| 15 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 16 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 17 | Dense forests , coniferous and broad-leaved , also rocky gorges on mountains and in deserts , hunting at dawn and dusk for mammals as large as roe deer and birds as large as Capercaillie. 26–28 in. ( 66–71 cm . ) . |
| 18 | The little grease-ball of a gaoler waddled off , taking us along passages and galleries as black as midnight , down steps coated with slime and human dirt where rats swarmed thick as fleas on a mangy dog . |
| 19 | The play tails off into the cries and inarticulate exclamations where , escaping the situation in which ‘ I got ta use words ’ in their normal sense , language becomes a cry of despair and horror as primal as the ‘ Wah ! |
| 20 | I think that the point , has to be made that when we 've had a transport supplementary grant decision and settlement as poor as this one , then it really is about trying to protect and enhance the people of Lincolnshire and the road network , rather than just for once , party politics , because I ca n't honestly believe that the conservatives would actually , feel that this is a fair , reasonable settlement . |
| 21 | Reasonable jobs , best suit on Sundays and parlours as clean as operating theatres . |
| 22 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 23 | Both looked very similar , faces and hair as white as snow whilst their eyes were strangely blue though red-rimmed . |
| 24 | And hair as red as carrots ! ’ |
| 25 | The Treaty is not written on tablets of stone , it allows for changes and improvements as early as nineteen ninety six . |
| 26 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |
| 27 | The CNAA was now dealing with the new generation of polytechnics but also with Scottish institutions , and institutions as diverse as the Royal Air Force College , Cranwell , and the London Bible College . |
| 28 | Some have , indeed , achieved standards of excellence in performance and direction as high as those reached by some professionals . |
| 29 | This exhibition and its catalogue were the first to show the whole spectrum of Czech Cubism 's attempts to create a universal style in literature , music , theatre and cinema as much as in the visual arts . |
| 30 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |