Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | With eyes as wide as a football pool , |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , is that a salami in his pocket ? ’ she said all innocent , with eyes as wide as a Volvo 's sidelights . |
| 8 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Occasionally a faint glow from the city brushed the edge of his cheek and she was reminded how handsome he was , the smooth chin , his lines as clean as a lengthening shadow . |
| 12 | Indeed , until acts of 1775 and 1777 introduced bottom limits of £1 and £5 respectively , some north-western manufacturers issued promissory notes to facilitate the payment of wages for denominations as low as a shilling . |
| 13 | Early tests suggest that LIFE can pinpoint cancers as small as a tenth of a millimetre across . |
| 14 | Some have hearing which is so acute that they can detect insects as tiny as a midge up to 60 feet away . |
| 15 | Some of these guns were on the top of the submarine pens , others were on concrete towers as large as a couple of houses but far more strongly built . |
| 16 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
| 17 | In the Minehead area , Gribble Booth & Taylor have properties as diverse as a fisherman 's cottage at £69,950 , a modern flat development at £79,950 and a detached bungalow at £82,500 . |
| 18 | It came at the end of a month that would send most managers as mad as a March hare , with a defeat at Oldham and points dropped to Villa , Manchester City and Arsenal . |
| 19 | And also , bear in mind that , we can argue this is divisional problems as much as a headquarters C A problem those members of staff are owned by division . |
| 20 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 21 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 22 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 23 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 24 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 25 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 26 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 28 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 29 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 30 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |