Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might be in a direct indictment , as at the end of 147 , where after twelve lines describing the poet 's state of fever and madness ( ‘ frantic-mad with evermore unrest ’ ) , the couplet finally reveals the cause of his derangement : ‘ For I have sworn thee fair , and thought thee bright , /Who art as black as hell , as dark as night . ’ |
| 2 | I think it 's significant that both these occasions involved three countries working together , er which er without er any violence , without any er injury as far as I am aware , er have stopped er these two ships that sought to continue to proceed . |
| 3 | That could well be , but we now have this tremendous er cooperation of so many countries together , we have a very strong team of naval forces in the Gulf now , er I think it 's significant that both these occasions involved three countries working together , er share , without er any violence at any , er injury as far as I 'm aware , er have stopped er these two ships that sought to continue to proceed . |
| 4 | Vanessa Redgrave 's look as worried as Germaine Greer 's . |
| 5 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 6 | But the chance of getting killed is one of the factors that makes the war correspondent 's job as compelling as it is . |
| 7 | It was a summer 's evening as beautiful as God had ever blessed on a wicked world . |
| 8 | Cumbernauld 's no' as big as Glasgow . ’ |
| 9 | I find this final strand of Kane 's theory as unacceptable as the first two in its pretensions to scientific validity and equally as objectionable in its racist undertones . |
| 10 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |
| 11 | While the buildings at Broadgate and Canary Wharf are not as wonderful , they have achieved contributions to London 's streetscape as fine as the best from our past . |
| 12 | However before we embark on that , there are two outstanding matters which were raised yesterday a and I 'd just like to know how far erm progress has been made in dealing with those and one was the erm definition as far as it can be made of what is meant by the Greater York area . |
| 13 | So that there has been a major breakthrough in the appreciation of English music , but it 's not quite , it 's still on the periphery , I think , of erm music as far as the Germans , the French and the Italians are concerned . |
| 14 | When the sixth failed , various members of Mr Yeltsin 's entourage gesticulated wildly as the limo , with a 7.7 litre V8 engine as big as that on a London bus , lurched backwards and forwards . |