Example sentences of "[prep] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 2 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |
| 3 | To become a sensory square it can need a reduction of as much as a twentieth in its height . |
| 4 | It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable . |
| 5 | Indeed , if the state can be thought of as acting as a single shareholder then it will be in a more powerful position vis-a-vis management than are shareholders of most private companies . |
| 6 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 7 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 8 | It 's slow , flickery and nowhere near as good as the PD version we had on the Megatape . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 10 | They rarely look anywhere near as good as the real thing , but they will be cheaper , and easier to keep clean . |
| 11 | Having watched Leeds during their high spots , particularly the early 70's , I feel that the Championship team of 1992 , while not being individually anywhere near as good as the old masters , the TEAM itself played more attractive and exciting football . |
| 12 | Now you 've got I mean the autostradas that they build are n't as good as , as , nowhere near as good as the autobahns in er in Germany and through th you know , Switzerland and that . |
| 13 | This is nowhere near as dangerous as the spike itself , but still causes a strength 5 attack on any targets hit . |
| 14 | She was well into her thirties , nowhere near as young as the carefully styled fall of blonde hair suggested . |
| 15 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 16 | The first is that the amount of evolutionary divergence in the organization of primate brains has not been anywhere near as great as the divergence between primates and other groups . |
| 17 | But the fabric side of the business is nowhere near as labour-intensive as the pottery , where the 28 different shapes of ANTA 's Balloneware , designed by Lachlan , are all handthrown and still handpainted . |
| 18 | Sadly , the game is nowhere near as polished as the films . |
| 19 | It is insignificant for all satellites because the residual precession is smaller the smaller the mass of the primary body , and no planet is anywhere near as massive as the Sun . |
| 20 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 21 | More recently , more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested . |
| 22 | Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage . |
| 23 | Moreover , the commercial spin-off from defence research has proved to be nothing like as great as the gains made from comparable expenditures on industrial research [ Peck , 1968 ] . |
| 24 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 25 | Some hardware can be fairly portable but nothing like as easy as a bound book . |
| 26 | Nicholas still denies the exchange was anything like as bad as the court supposed and although he paid £1,300 damages to the victim , h e remains adamant that an injustice was done . |
| 27 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 28 | Officials argue that the rise in the yen , so far , is nothing like as steep as the near doubling of the currency which occurred after the 1985 Plaza Accord . |
| 29 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 30 | If your skiing is anything like as extreme as the conditions you will need to be well prepared . |