Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shooting uniform of olive greens and tweeds as tribal as the black Sunday outfits of the Lewis churchgoers . |
| 2 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 3 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 4 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 5 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 6 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 7 | In his prime Burn had built , substantially reconstructed or enlarged as many as six country houses a year for clients as diverse as the Marquis of Westminster and I.K. Brunel . |
| 8 | Frogs , lizards and small mammals are all hunted on the ground ; and the largest rattlesnakes , such as the diamondbacks , which may exceed 2 m ( 6l/2 ft ) in length , feed on animals as large as a hare . |
| 9 | Believing that the recent emergence of theory in literary education is a symptom of disorder , I find the contradictions as symptomatic as the coherences . |
| 10 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 11 | Even when the more violent and disruptive aspects of events in France had become clearly visible , it was often the methods as much as the objectives of the revolutionaries which aroused opposition . |
| 12 | I think as far as market is concerned we have sort of taken certain steps as far as the marketing is I mean the computerisation of ticket system gives us a much greater insight on marketing now cos you can actually see what people come to see and we can by the ticket that 's actually sold and we can actually target people direct . |
| 13 | But since then , it 's expanded massively and now contains subjects as diverse as the Cook collection , relics from Captain Cook 's voyage to the South Pacific in 1772 , to totem poles donated by a North American Indian tribe . |
| 14 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 15 | On issues like unilateralism or the economy , papers like the Guardian and Telegraph did seem to influence their readers as much as the tabloids , but not on the question of voting choice . |
| 16 | With eyes as wide as a football pool , |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , is that a salami in his pocket ? ’ she said all innocent , with eyes as wide as a Volvo 's sidelights . |
| 18 | He dropped his pack , unbuckled his sword and propped it against the wall , then turned to rake Isabel with eyes as sharp as the wicked-looking blade behind him . |
| 19 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 20 | His face was still , his mouth held in a taut beautiful line , his eyes as cold as an arctic glacier as he encouraged her to continue with the slightest nod of his head . |
| 21 | Her ma had been a lovely well-bred , dark-haired colleen then , with eyes as green as the meadows in which she 'd played before Paddy Byrne had won her heart . |
| 22 | Well , according to Du Camp , Gustave the Gallic chieftain , the six-foot giant with a voice like a trumpet , had ‘ large eyes as green as the sea ’ . |
| 23 | I confess that more than once I came near to tears , eyes as misted as the beautiful stage setting of Günther Schneider-Siemssen . |
| 24 | Ambient air samples from 50 locations , up to 1000 feet away , are continuously analysed for up to 25 different chemical compounds chosen by the user , at concentrations as low as a few ppb . |
| 25 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 26 | These were high status castes and many of them were found to have sex ratios as low as a thousand to one , sorry , a hundred to one . |
| 27 | Unix International , which found its million-dollar seat on X/Open 's board of directors as burdensome as the Open Software Foundation did and was threatening to drop out , as OSF did ( UX No 404 ) , has found accommodation in X/Open 's new cheaper technical membership classification . |
| 28 | That is , the Third World needs to be involved from the start in the development of the next generation of machines , which will transform our lives as much as the car did . |
| 29 | White dread bass player CJ DeVillar plucks those popping lines as good as the Dan Reed Network 's Mel Brannon . |
| 30 | White dread bass player CJ DeVillar plucks those popping lines as good as the Dan Reed Network 's Mel Brannon . |