Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 2 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 3 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 4 | These goals never are ( never can be ) so explicit as to exclude all subjectivity in interpreting performance against them . |
| 5 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 6 | Ruth 's hair was straight as falling black water . |
| 7 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 8 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 9 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 10 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 11 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 12 | Antislavery thus had a further institutional base but it was thereby also vulnerable as regards united action to the outbreak of warfare amongst religious parties . |
| 13 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 14 | One might , of course , argue that all talk of non-conscious mental processes is so philosophically problematic as to outlaw cognitive psychology in general ( irrespective of whether it uses AI-ideas ) ( Malcolm 1971 ) . |
| 15 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 16 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 17 | However , if collocations like ’ weak tea ’ and ’ powerful car ’ are so numerous as to evade any method of acquisition other than years of learning , how then should a machine-readable collocation dictionary be compiled ? |
| 18 | Given the rise in Berlin property prices , choosing a site is as important as getting major funding . |
| 19 | ‘ In golf , customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play , ’ he wrote . |
| 20 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 21 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 22 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 23 | A person above the age of 13 , though under 18 , does not differ in general as regards criminal liability from a person of full age , though modern legislation has made special provision for the trial and punishment of persons under 17 . |
| 24 | ‘ Then , if you would also remain here for a few moments , Madame Ash , perhaps Madame Craig would be so kind as to come this way ? ’ |
| 25 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 26 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 27 | So long as women are subordinate to men , their language will continue to be stereotyped as indicating natural subservience , unintelligence and immaturity . |
| 28 | Your Committee have appointed Mr D H Young as Acting Honorary Secretary until Ken Lucas is able to return to duty . |
| 29 | The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts . |
| 30 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |