Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 2 | If Albany speaks , it suggests an attempt to reassert authority he has just been trying to give away ( as Gurr proposes about as upbeat a close as leaving Denmark in Fortinbras 's control ) . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 4 | Apricot sometimes wished she lived in as ordinary a household as did her neighbours ; though the more she considered the neighbours the less ordinary they seemed . |
| 5 | It was certainly not so simple an issue as supposed by the old ideologues on either side — the neo-mercantilists in favour of protection and the neo-classical liberals in favour of open , free trade . |
| 6 | Sometimes it can be as hard a task as pulling teeth from a hungry crocodile but do not despair ! |
| 7 | No standard , uniform culture can be imposed on the young in so culturally diverse a society as exists in Britain , yet much is shared in common . |
| 8 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 9 | Few English monarchs have come to the throne in as strong a position as did James II . |
| 10 | The solution of silica which had saturated the dead organisms and solidified into chert was clearly as fine-grained and durable a preservative as exists . |
| 11 | Learning from successes is just as valid and useful a process as learning from mistakes ( see page 110 ) . |
| 12 | Well Shanice , that 's about as good an idea as covering your arse in petrol and striking a match on your trousers , is n't it ? |
| 13 | There are the honest and decent people of Easton , and then the ‘ gougers ’ , ‘ mouths ’ , and other trouble-makers , with whom the police have as problematic a relationship as do all police forces with miscreants . |
| 14 | ‘ Fams ’ describes re-starting the Wailers as ‘ rough ’ and it might not be as glorious a gig as playing Zimbabwe 's independence celebrations with Bob , but it 's better than the fate of most reggae elders ; redundancy thanks to computerised ragga . |
| 15 | Few would argue that his departure from the court will leave as big a gap as did those of the last two justices to retire : Thurgood Marshall , the first black on the court , and William Brennan , its liberal conscience through four decades and one of its finest minds in two centuries . |
| 16 | They do not form as dense a fog as measured by the Fog Index , but when you use cloudy phrases a mist gathers . |
| 17 | Tiller was a stickler for cleanliness , so she was told to be strict in supervising their washing ( for some this was as novel an experience as appearing on stage ) . |