Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another collective title , the Angry Young Men , was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description . |
| 2 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 3 | ‘ Market forces will never take care of an industry as special as fishing . ’ |
| 4 | He showed her the stables , and one of the old mares nuzzled Isobel 's hand , with a mouth as soft as velvet . |
| 5 | Nothing activates the bladder as much as fear , either , and this is the moment when the studio audience will often hear the clatter of heels across the floor as guests make a last-minute dash for the loo . |
| 6 | Hateley is hard evidence that footballers , and maybe especially strikers , thrive on strength of mind as much as body . |
| 7 | She felt a cold disgust as physical as nausea and with it there swept over her a weakness which shrivelled her in her chair . |
| 8 | The skiing conditions little better , with snow as soft as sand . |
| 9 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 10 | Soviet design philosophy also rises to the system 's innate strengths : an economy which finds quantity as cheap as quality is expensive ( hence long production lines and low unit costs ) and a procurement system effective at bringing together operators , designers and technologists . |
| 11 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 12 | In other words , it 's a question of attitude as much as location . |
| 13 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |
| 14 | By accident as much as design the Ashleys created a remarkable international brand , tapping a worldwide nostalgia for the English country cottage look . |
| 15 | Upstairs in the attic , Sweetheart 's laughter was a sound as pretty as music . |
| 16 | Burr , with his Yale associate Northrop , succeeded in establishing conclusive evidence ( with the use of a highly sensitive instrument capable of measuring electrical discharges in the body as small as five-millionth of a volt ) that the electrical potential found in the human body is directly related to an electrical pattern which dictates the nature — the form , growth and evolutionary direction , of the organism . |
| 17 | But more than that it was the shock , a feeling that left his body as cold as ice , and sent these involuntary convulsions through him . |
| 18 | Is this long enough for the evolution of an organism as complex as man ? |
| 19 | In contrast to thymocyte DNA from TCR -α mutant mice , thymocyte DNA from TCR -β mutant mice gave rise to no detectable DJ bands and a mutant germ-line band as intense as brain DNA ( negative control ) from the same mutant mice . |
| 20 | No good for rummaging around in gorse bushes , of course , but Paris and Milan have recognized that for today 's centrally heated lifestyle we do n't need tweed as thick as carpet underlay . |
| 21 | with the problem of hunger still in evidence in LDCs , some Third World governments have turned to other strategies to make the best use of resources and organise distribution , the onus being on distribution as much as production . |
| 22 | Seagoing is as old as history and the merchant seaman as old as trade itself . |
| 23 | She was slipping on a surface as smooth as glass , and cries were resounding in her ears — her own cries , she thought confusedly , or Adam 's ; then she fell , and the glassy surface struck like a blow . |
| 24 | I mean , I know , one , one essay I had to write erm wa was erm literally what constituted a person as far as philosophy ? |
| 25 | It 's to do with catarrh as much as region . ’ |
| 26 | She smiled , a small smile as bitter as rue that just curled the corners of her lips . |
| 27 | Her pale head as heavy as metal . |
| 28 | This might be in a direct indictment , as at the end of 147 , where after twelve lines describing the poet 's state of fever and madness ( ‘ frantic-mad with evermore unrest ’ ) , the couplet finally reveals the cause of his derangement : ‘ For I have sworn thee fair , and thought thee bright , /Who art as black as hell , as dark as night . ’ |
| 29 | I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man . |
| 30 | On the middle pitch , with its grain as fine as sandpaper , you will be hard pushed to find a single loose hold . |