Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food was obviously as important a commodity as drink in The Black Dog . |
| 2 | It was essential , Dexter knew , to gather together as powerful a case as possible against the reporter before arresting him because from that moment the clock would begin to run : Parkin would either need to be charged with the murder or released within twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | It was not naturally as smart a match as the failed one of the summer , but the reactions were all the same gratifying . |
| 4 | The fact that the crew are all paying amateurs and only half knew how to sail before they became involved , is just as sharp a contrast . |
| 5 | And that 'll be just as powerful a tool as the Scarborough conference . |
| 6 | As a result he decided ‘ psychic reality ’ could be just as powerful a source for the development of neurotic symptoms as ‘ physical reality ’ . |
| 7 | In its way , caf is just as revolutionary a picture as computer-based home learning ; the roads to take are very different , though . |
| 8 | However , there is likely to be just as close a contest at Chambers Park where Portadown face Queen 's University . |
| 9 | Consequently saturation street parking emerges as just as serious a problem as it has done in Mainz , particularly near the busy perimeter roads with their shops and offices . |
| 10 | It was just as good a place as any to get away from Julius for a while . |
| 11 | If a recording artist comes to me without a publishing deal , I always insist IRS is considered for publishing as we can pay better percentage splits , do just as good a job , and help invest in an act 's career at a vital time . |
| 12 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 13 | Er , mine died when I was nine and my mother has been my mother and a father to both myself my brother and sister and I feel she 's done just as good a job as I could of as my father could have done . |
| 14 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 15 | Underwater , their nymph is just as efficient a predator and unlike the roaming adult , it lies in ambush for other insect nymphs , and larvae , for other aquatic bugs , and even for young fish fry . |
| 16 | He seems to have just as strong a case . |
| 17 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 18 | But as the test is that A must use no more force than is necessary , and as this necessity varies with the facts of each case , self-help is likely to be just as dangerous a remedy here as elsewhere . |
| 19 | ‘ The farmer has just as great an interest in safe food as the customer . |
| 20 | Other writers feel that the imprint date of items in the collection is just as accurate a predictor , and easier to apply . |
| 21 | And it is just as horrifying an idea to contemplate being walled into such a Paradise Garden as being condemned to spend eternity playing games with balloons which never burst , receiving presents from Santa without wondering how they were paid for , being organised into teams with leaders chosen arbitrarily from among us , or eating a permanent celestial buffet of ice cream and salmon sandwiches . |
| 22 | It is just as practical a uniform as that found on the flight-deck ( which did n't even exist in the eighteenth century — which profession lacks originality ? ) . |
| 23 | Father Firmin is just as real a person for them as Charlie , though I 'm glad to say they like Charlie more . |
| 24 | Just as an uninflated balloon gives little idea of its potential size and shape when inflated , so a limp penis gives just as poor an idea of its size when erect . |
| 25 | It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 27 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 28 | But little could be done to redress the situation since the houses were in just as bad a position as the growers . |
| 29 | ‘ The City 's in just as bad a shape as it always was , is n't it ? |
| 30 | Exercise is just as important a part of slimming as eating less food . |