Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 2 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 3 | Two beggar children , arms and legs as thin as sticks , stood beside a brazier singing a carol . |
| 4 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 5 | Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% . |
| 6 | The Countess jabbed her walking cane in the direction of a girl with bright gold ringlets and eyes as radiant as sapphires . |
| 7 | She had eyes as blue as cornflowers — ’ |
| 8 | Her family and acquaintance would have been greatly astonished to learn that Camille considered herself prematurely grown-up , and she herself was waiting for the day when she could tame her anger into cold bitterness and frame it into phrases as cutting as tempered steel . |
| 9 | People are given the chance to gain a vocational qualification in areas as diverse as catering , working with horses and machinery . |
| 10 | First and foremost though , we want to go back to basics and erm get our ideas absolutely straight as regards what quality is and what we 're trying to achieve with I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 11 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 12 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 13 | He used to be 100% sure of what was needed … but not only the defensive problems … things so obvious as using Deane and Whelan when he should be using Deane/Wallace . |
| 14 | He was glad to return from Siam in 1907 when he started consulting again , covering topics as diverse as sherardizing and the manufacture of composition billiard balls . |
| 15 | The absolute precision of the rhythmic detail in ‘ Reprises par Interversion ’ ( from Livre d'orgue ) would be spellbinding were it not for the fact that it all sounds as natural as breathing , and I marvel at Messiaen 's immaculate measuring of grace notes , not least the recurring four-note figure of ‘ La Vierge et L'Enfant ’ ( from La nativité ) ; how sensible it sounds , how easily it all flows . |
| 16 | The third lesson is the ease with which artefacts can enter into experiments intended to study phenomena as complex as learning and memory . |
| 17 | Even in the rich world , childbirth is between one and a half to three times as dangerous as taking the pill and nearly 11 times as dangerous as being sterilised or using the IUD , whereas early , legal abortion carries a mortality rate similar to the pill . |
| 18 | But work by Earth Resources Research for FoE showed that , as a means of reducing sulphur pollution , building a nuclear power station would be ten times as expensive as fitting FGD equipment to an existing coal-fired power station . |
| 19 | Reasonable jobs , best suit on Sundays and parlours as clean as operating theatres . |
| 20 | " Candidates do need firmer guidance and practice in examination techniques as fundamental as reading carefully the examination questions , noting the emphasis given by the wording generally to any particular word or phrase and deciding what particular response the question invites , so that a more discerning and discriminating attitude may be adopted to shaping the material to hand to meet the needs of specific questions . " |
| 21 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 22 | When asked what to do with a running shoe , the non-exercisers said ‘ run or walk ’ while the exercisers made suggestions as diverse as hammering in nails , killing cockroaches , or putting pot plants in them . |
| 23 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 24 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 25 | He knew that boys of twelve did not have French tests so important as to prevent their seeing their fathers . |
| 26 | Industrialism requires a very delicate adjustment of demographic growth : not too fast ; because that will lower wages and thus both consumer demand and the incentive to labour saving investment ; not too slow , for that will raise wages so high as to entrench on profits and the capacity for investment . |
| 27 | Courses as disparate as have undergone validation . |
| 28 | You 'll need to spread your talents if you hope to make a living from writing and I 'd recommend reading Thirty Ways to Make Money From Writing by Jennie Hawthorne ( Rosters , £4.95 ) which covers markets as diverse as working for the trade press , humour and writing for children . |
| 29 | Professionals in fields as diverse as housing , economic development , planning and crime prevention across the voluntary , public and commercial sectors are training in ‘ community practice ’ . |
| 30 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |