Example sentences of "[was/were] as [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it would be fair to say that the vicissitudes of electoral fortunes were as hot a topic as those of peer group approval . |
| 2 | An illusory feeling , admittedly , but illusions were as good a currency as any in the City . |
| 3 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 4 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 5 | Since the days when oysters were as everyday a dish as hamburgers are now , we have reached a point where each person eats only an average of 1.2oz of fresh fish a week . |
| 6 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 7 | It was as disgusting a concoction as I have seen and not particularly cheap . |
| 8 | Their craggy Nab , poised above the Tees estuary , was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping . |
| 9 | The number of their supporters , if not activists , was enormously enhanced by the way in which the Vichy régime had mobilized the country 's youth in patriotic but hitherto innocuous associations which now underpinned the revolution , perhaps even to the point where youth was as critical a factor in the Vietnamese revolution as it was , at the same time , in Indonesia . |
| 10 | And if you think I 'm to be taken in that easy , Miss Jennifer , then think again ! " and muttering to himself that it was as great a pity to see women weep as geese go barefoot , he took Ann by the arm and went back into his house . |
| 11 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 12 | When he came to serve the Parliament , Charles I thought that he was as great a monopolist as those arraigned . |
| 13 | It was the acquittal of the four policemen who beat Rodney King that touched off the most lethal urban riot in American history ( 50 dead , the majority of them black and Latino ) , but the memory of the killing of Latasha Harlins was as potent a spark in igniting the intifada . |
| 14 | He knew very well that fear of Securitate informers was as effective a way of hamstringing opposition as actually deploying agents in the field . |
| 15 | In time ‘ Oriental sex ’ was as standard a commodity as any other available in the mass culture . |
| 16 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 17 | The decision was as rational a move as every other move in Jackie 's career . |
| 18 | No , I 'd say that wife of his was as unsuitable a sick-nurse as you could find . ’ |
| 19 | It was as suitable a match as any could be for Ireland 's heiress . ’ |
| 20 | The sansculotte was as familiar a subject in Gillray 's 1793 output , as had been the inadequacies of the British Royal Family in the previous year . |
| 21 | The Unix festival , Uniforum ‘ 93 , did n't feel like it was as successful a show as it was last year . |
| 22 | It was important to get there and a lift in Miles ' odious yellow Cortina was as good a way as any other . |
| 23 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 24 | He was destined to head Romania 's nuclear power and research programme , which was as good a reason to emigrate as any other . |
| 25 | I do n't think it was as good a Cabinet and certainly the debates on economic policy really ceased to exist . |
| 26 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 27 | It was as good a time as ever — the lawnmower season starts in mid-February , so any deal has to be done now . ’ |
| 28 | With John going to Wildenrath , Lindsey decided it was as good a time as ever to be converted onto his aircraft and in October John converted Lindsey onto the Corsair , and in doing so , Lindsey went from 230hp in the ‘ Me 108 ’ to 2,400hp in the Corsair , a horsepower-leap that must be the largest anyone flying warbirds has ever done . |
| 29 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 30 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |