Example sentences of "[is] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … educational technology is as wide as education itself : it is concerned with the design and evaluation of curricula and learning experiences and with the problem of implementing and renovating them . |
| 2 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 3 | David Gower : The Autobiography ( Collins-Willow £14.99 ) is as refreshing as gin and tonic . |
| 4 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 5 | The first version had a few interface bugs , but Lotus has fixed them with updates and the current version is as bug-free as software can be . |
| 6 | Tests on 16 fossilised shellfish showed that acid dating is as accurate as carbon dating . |
| 7 | The public counts on those who disseminate factual information … to be certain that what they tell us is as accurate as research and the conscientious use of language can make it . |
| 8 | Great care must be exercised with these core pieces as the material is as brittle as glass and easily broken by careless handling and assembly . |
| 9 | Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system . |
| 10 | PRODUCING GREAT MEALS IS AS EASY AS PIE WITH PRESTIGE COOKWARE AND BAKEWARE . |
| 11 | Growing apples is as easy as apple pie , if you are Joan Greenway of Highfield Nurseries . |
| 12 | For most of us , the turkey is as traditional as mince pies , but the story of how it found its way on to the Christmas table is an interesting one . |
| 13 | A study of 269 Scottish women shows that C-film spermicidal film is as effective as gel when used with a diaphragm ( £2.04 for 10 from chemists , or free from some family planning clinics ) . |
| 14 | This trial has shown that elemental diet , when tolerated , is as effective as prednisolone in treating acute Crohn 's disease in the short term , and confirms the result from the original study of O'Morain et al . |
| 15 | In conclusion , this study confirms that four weeks treatment with elemental diet , when tolerated , is as effective as prednisolone . |
| 16 | After he gave up the booze at Christmas 1977 — for good - he gave us his splendid Brian which is as clever and well-judged a piece of comic acting as you 'll see . |
| 17 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of those measures could be a Government publicity campaign to warn youngsters that car stealing is as dangerous as alcohol or drug abuse ? |
| 18 | And if we are not looking for something which is as restrictive as greenbelt we ought neither to be expressing in whatever terms a presumption or describing something which is permissible as an exception . |
| 19 | That family is as poor as church mice , and Stair told me that Havvie had already managed to snare one Yankee heiress , but she got away , and now he has caught another — not quite so rich , but rich enough . |
| 20 | in fairy tales evil is as omnipresent as virtue … . |
| 21 | Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along . |
| 22 | I knew there was a meeting on , but your guess is as good as mine why they want to see you . ’ |
| 23 | His mouth is as hot as curry . |
| 24 | As a profession A&R is as precarious as politics , with reputations lost just as quickly as they 're won . |
| 25 | It is as dead as phlogiston and the universal aether . |
| 26 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 27 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 28 | Banks have begun to recognize that consolidation of air transport is as common as containerization of ocean cargo . |
| 29 | What 's more , as anyone who has ever flicked through the ‘ Readers ' Wives ’ sections of porno mags will know , pseudo-whorish underwear is as ugly as hell . |
| 30 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |