Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 4 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 5 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 6 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 7 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 8 | The rain fell almost horizontally , its bite as sharp as darts . |
| 9 | But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together . |
| 10 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 11 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 12 | It that 's true of a group as conspicuous as hornbills , what does it say about the fate of the great majority of ‘ unglamorous ’ animals on the planet ? |
| 13 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 14 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 15 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |
| 16 | But selectivity so planned as to celebrate randomness . |
| 17 | Commending this agreement to his followers , Law was anxious that they recognise the advantage of Lloyd George as an ally , for " at this moment , Mr Lloyd George commands an amount of influence in every constituency as great as has ever been exercised by any Prime Minister " . |
| 18 | And Lori 's erratic course as good as told her she had no fear of the outcome if Paige did catch up with her . |
| 19 | It is every bit as easy as teaching it that chickens , ducks , turkeys and sheep are taboo . |
| 20 | Finding a taxi at 4.55 in London is every bit as possible as finding Bruce Willis in your bed . |
| 21 | And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places . |
| 22 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced yesterday , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp declines . |
| 23 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 24 | But he has put in many a coaching stint at London Welsh and that is a task every bit as unrewarding as watching Chelsea . |
| 25 | Fenway fans have simply grown resigned to seeing fine teams commit one horrendous play to throw away a crucial championship game as good as won . |
| 26 | ‘ I am never going to write a song as good as Blowing In The Wind , ’ he says . |
| 27 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 28 | This must be the product of a great conspiracy , on a scale so immense and of an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man . ’ |
| 29 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 30 | Occasionally , and this was such an occasion , Elisabeth Danziger experienced a feeling of disorientation so powerful as to render her environment totally unfamiliar . |