Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whether it 's used for holding a special Christmas arrangement , potpourri , a bowl of fruit or just as handy side table for your guests to put their drinks on , this occasional table will prove indispensable all year round . |
| 2 | Parents will always want twice as much altruism , or half as much selfishness as the offspring , our certainty to . |
| 3 | Hall , Kaye , and Pearce ( 1985 ) have pointed out that just as latent inhibition can occur during the CS-US pairings of excitatory training ( producing a fully trained CS+ that will form further associations only slowly ) , so latent inhibition can also be expected to occur during inhibitory training . |
| 4 | ‘ Our results show that just as much effluent can be released from big bales as from clamps and the fines for polluting waterways are just as severe . |
| 5 | The argument is that just as direct democracy is ruled out by the size of the modern state , so too once companies grow beyond a certain size it is no longer possible to involve all their members directly in the decisions concerning the running of the company . |
| 6 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 7 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 8 | BR has a somewhat longer network , employs more than twice as many railway staff and carries considerably more passenger traffic than does RENFE . |
| 9 | The fact that the duodenal ulcer patients secreted more than twice as much acid as the H pylori positive healthy volunteers despite having equivalent gastrin concentrations shows that the duodenal ulcer patients have an exaggerated acid response to stimulation by gastrin . |
| 10 | In our Western diet we eat more than twice as much protein as we need , and of an unhealthy type . |
| 11 | This was because the higher pressures and temperatures required more advanced materials engineering , which was often only worthwhile if there were also economies of scale ( the 200MW sets with advanced steam conditions built later , for example , used less than half as much steel per MW as the simple 30MW sets the BEA were installing ) . |
| 12 | Though they were still doing less than half as much business as the British company , their rate of return on capital was higher . |
| 13 | So you will be taking in about twice as much dietary fibre in less than half as much food . |
| 14 | And just as modern science has no answer to the riddles of human brain and mind function , so too is there no satisfactory answer to the way in which a creature 's brain , body and instinct are put together . |
| 15 | And just as indirect observation in general does n't need linguistic signs , nor does the special case of communication . |
| 16 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 17 | Besard 's Thesaurus , on the other hand , contains more than forty fantasias and nearly as many praeludia , as well as a great quantity of dances . |
| 18 | The area is great for watching wildlife with 600 butterfly species and almost as many bird types . |
| 19 | ‘ Such sections should not be inserted as footnotes but rather as important component parts of the syllabus — under headings : In The Class ; In The School ; In The Community . ' |
| 20 | In Washington there was understanding , but just as much disquiet about British Defence policy . |
| 21 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 22 | Beyond this accessible and easily comprehensible illustration of the ‘ impact ’ of the mass media and the extent to which political activity is a by-product of the existence of the mass media , there is another , more elusive , but just as significant aspect to the media 's role in contemporary society : the nature of political practice and the contours of the political system are , to an extent , derived from the work of the mass media . |