Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a short silence then the dogs ' barking grew into a raucous row ; shouts and the shrill of hunting horns carried clear to us as a fat buck , together with two hinds , galloped from the trees and across the meadow in a flurry of snow . |
| 2 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 3 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 4 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 5 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 6 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 7 | Good note-making methods are invaluable to you as a student because : |
| 8 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 9 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 10 | It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work . |
| 11 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 12 | When my right hon. Friend is dealing with trade with Libya , will he bear it in mind that the United Kingdom is happy and willing to trade anywhere in the world , because that is important to us as a trading nation , but we must never sacrifice our values and standards , particularly those concerning our attitude towards international terrorism ? |
| 13 | Is your work ( whether paid or unpaid ) just a way of paying the rent , or is it important to you as a person ? |
| 14 | ‘ You said he was as important to you as a desk or a wardrobe ! ’ |
| 15 | In Guinness plc v Saunders and Another [ 1990 ] AC 663 , a director claimed a payment was due to him as a result of an agreement between him and a committee of the board , but not authorised by the board of directors . |
| 16 | It was of course self-evident to him as a rationalist that dreams are a product of the imagination , rather than any mystical intervention . |
| 17 | ‘ It was important to respect the independence of older team members who had been used to me as a competitor and find the right balance between coaching and friendship . ’ |
| 18 | They expressed their ‘ dissatisfaction … with the restricted powers available to them as a result of local government reorganisation . |
| 19 | ( ii ) The plaintiffs contend that variation should be refused on the ground that the information which led the Bank of England to issue the section 39 notice became available to them as a result of a serious contempt of court committed by the defendants in breach of the injunction . |
| 20 | This is the case where the graphic monetarist image of governments printing or minting new money is quite literally accurate since no alternative source or finance is available to them as a result of the restrictive assumptions of the model . |
| 21 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 22 | Just ponder for a moment on that staggering fact — practically the whole store of recorded human knowledge in the world is available to you as an individual at little or no direct cost . |
| 23 | The first two groups would have much to gain from interaction in an educational setting designed to emphasise what they had in common , and the servicing role we continued to provide would benefit from the additional resources ( of teaching and support staff , of facilities , equipment , and library provision , and of committee representation ) available to us as a department within a developed departmental structure . |
| 24 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
| 25 | The polymer exists initially in the solid state where it is restricted to only one of the many conformations which are available to it as a free isolated molecule . |
| 26 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 27 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 28 | He was kind to her as a kid . |
| 29 | Not just the content of erm the two hours but anything else which you feel is pertinent to you as a group or indeed you as an individual . |
| 30 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |