Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , the vendor will seek as large a consideration as possible , with as few contingent liabilities as possible . |
| 2 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 3 | Nothing is worse than walking in wet trousers for long periods of time , so the overtrousers you select should give as good a service as your jacket . |
| 4 | You see , I must admit you see not I do n't gon na do as good a job as |
| 5 | do n't think she 's gon na do as good a job and that would definitely make it . |
| 6 | if you do n't think that the girl that you 've interviewed is gon na do as good a job as |
| 7 | Concern was expressed both that an initial compliance check would not eliminate the possibility of later default , and that firms with a number of branch offices run largely independently of one another for accounting purposes might present as big a risk of default as sole practices . |
| 8 | As the renewable energy sources develop they will inevitably quickly lose their present quaint , pastoral image and the concepts of noise and horizon pollution will assume as significant a rôle in the public bestiary as do atmospheric and nuclear pollution today . |
| 9 | He should expect as good a season as Russell Claydon . |
| 10 | The process of indexing should therefore employ as large a lexicon as possible . |
| 11 | Fifth , the problem of fonts and output matching will become as big a problem for the desktop publishing market as it ever was for the traditional sector and potentially more confusing for the user than ever before . |
| 12 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 13 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 14 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 15 | I come now to the Roll of Honour ; and I think I can say that we can boast as remarkable a list of names as any school in the country . |
| 16 | Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation . |
| 17 | Professionally set up , a JD would make as good a Tele as you 'll ever need , so join the new age of guitar realism — be cheap and be proud . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism . |
| 19 | The heights of the plants vary from about eight to 20cm , so they wo n't make as neat an edging as the single-coloured varieties — but they are attractive gap fillers or ground cover . |
| 20 | Field men have ready access to consent documents and will treat as relevant the degree to which standards are exceeded . |
| 21 | Does he regard as sensible the position revealed by Graham Jackson , the cardiologist at Guy 's opted-out hospital , where local people are unable to be treated because the local district health authority 's contract has run out ? |
| 22 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 23 | ‘ International yardsticks ’ means that each country must attain as equal a distribution as that achieved by all other countries at the same development stage . |
| 24 | It was Colin Calderwood of all people who joined in the attack to make and take as good a goal as you 'll see anywhere . |
| 25 | Conversion of a Nardus upland grassland to a rye grass ley would not produce as drastic an increase because it could anyway support a livestock grazing level significantly above that of wet moorland . |
| 26 | Most dolphins and small whales travel in groups broader than they are long , which allows them to acoustically scan as large an area as possible . |
| 27 | Social Services the world of Social Services do n't have as strong a lobby as the Education lobby , or the Environment lobby , nationally or traditionally , and in a way I think the awfulness of the situation got people to the point of saying enough 's enough , and that was to me very healthy , absolutely healthy . |
| 28 | I 'd have as strong a claim for custody as you ! ’ |
| 29 | While we know of certain special cases ( the sonnets of Michelangelo to Tommaso Cavalieri , for instance ) , it is now clear that this was not at all customary , and that the imputation of homosexuality in the Renaissance could have as destructive an effect on a man 's life as it has had until recently ( if , indeed , there has been any real change of English attitudes in these supposedly liberal times ) . |
| 30 | Narrow the aperture of the microscope and then we shall have as accurate a knowledge of the photon 's direction as we please and thus the uncertainty in the momentum transferred to the electron will be controlled . |