Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyway erm and if P D er , remains a problem , or is n't gon na be addressed as far as the changes |
| 2 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 3 | The assessment of oral skills is considered as important as the assessment of other skills |
| 4 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 5 | It had grown less incongruous as the town grew towards it . |
| 6 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 7 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 8 | Instead , the best accounts of the ‘ causes ’ of language are social and psychological , where language is seen as occurring as a result of interactions between people and their environments . |
| 9 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 10 | I shied at such a thinly veiled challenge , but succumbed to her persuasion , which had become more vociferous as the water diminished . |
| 11 | But , so , oddly enough , does much of the statistical and purely ‘ factual ’ material which has become more abundant as the state extends its role . |
| 12 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 13 | The 1006 supernova , in Lupus ( the Wolf ) is believed to have become as brilliant as the quarter-Moon . |
| 14 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 15 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 16 | Yet at one extreme a genuinely creative entrepreneur like Rupert Murdoch veered off into over-expansion and over- borrowing which have become as life-threatening as the antics of Alan Bond . |
| 17 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 18 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 19 | In United States maritime trade , both incoming and outgoing , freight forwarders ' receipts have become as common as the traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 20 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 21 | The automobile industry had become as fashion-conscious as the rag trade , and it had discovered how to make people discontented with even last year 's model . |
| 22 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 23 | ‘ Parents see behaviour at home and school as separate — as if there 's no connection ’ The art of teaching has become almost incidental as the role of social worker has increased , says Douglas Fraser |
| 24 | The very science that he is , presumably , engaged in can itself be recognized as existing as a practice within three of the ISAs he refers to ; the educational , the political and the communicative ISAs . |
| 25 | The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore . |
| 26 | OF ALL the fads spurred by the onset of the single European market , none has proved as damning as the one that might be called ‘ Euronomia ’ : an uncontrollable compulsion to include ‘ Euro ’ in company names . |
| 27 | In the event , some of the consequences of the solution have proved as irksome as the problem , but they have done the trick . |
| 28 | He appeared to have a hard grasp on politics , current states ' rights issues and federal judgeships being contested — a scenario that had seemed as likely as the fusillade of laser fire Ali said Muslim spaceships would one day loose on the white devils . |
| 29 | The hall had always seemed as unfriendly as an abandoned church — it belonged to the days of Lizzie 's strict attention and Twomey 's quiet , dignified footsteps . |
| 30 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |