Example sentences of "as [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As indicated earlier , the project does not seem to have built in as strong a mechanism for evaluation as it might , and it is not easy to determine the degree to which the project philosophy is alive and well in the project schools of three or four years ago . |
| 2 | I 'd have as strong a claim for custody as you ! ’ |
| 3 | Now fear of Labour makes the ‘ feel bad ’ factor almost as strong a force for Major as the ‘ feel good ’ factor was for Thatcher . |
| 4 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 5 | Father Firmin is just as real a person for them as Charlie , though I 'm glad to say they like Charlie more . |
| 6 | As late as 1948 , John Newsom , in what R. A. Butler ( the sponsor of the 1944 Education Act ) , described as ‘ wise and humorous recommendations for girls ’ schools ' , favoured as separate a curriculum for girls — grounded in domestic subjects — as any advocated by early twentieth-century eugenicists . |
| 7 | As a sudden mutation there is no reason whatever why it should not crop up anywhere , and the small island between Ireland and England is as likely a place for it as anywhere else . |
| 8 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 9 | Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation . |
| 10 | It will be appreciated that these insubstantial structures can not form as satisfactory a basis for conversion into dwellings as can the traditional masonry-built flail-threshing barn . |
| 11 | ‘ LEIGH HUNT lived here ’ is about as exclusive a tag for a house as ‘ Queen Elizabeth slept here ’ . |
| 12 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 13 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 14 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 15 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 16 | His final , understated comments on the worthwhile qualities of a career in politics are as good an apologia for a much-derided trade as I have read recently . |
| 17 | As a result he decided ‘ psychic reality ’ could be just as powerful a source for the development of neurotic symptoms as ‘ physical reality ’ . |
| 18 | There are databases which can be bought in from outside ( provided by government , consultancy and other organisations ) and are as important a source for information as that gained from internal databases . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 20 | Why is there no socialism in the United States ? remains as pertinent a question for Marxists as when Werner Sombart , then a Marxist , first asked it in 1904 . |
| 21 | Overall , the south presents nothing like as bleak a picture for Congress as the north , at this stage of the campaign . |
| 22 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | China is using every negotiating device , and it is master of them all , to carve out as big a place for itself as it can in pre-1997 Hong Kong . |
| 25 | I think it was just as big a gamble for him , perhaps bigger . ’ |
| 26 | PAUL LOUGHLIN hopes to make as big an impact for St Helens today as when he was last at Knowsley Road . |
| 27 | That those responsible for planning and leading worship make as thorough a preparation for each service as is possible , including the preparation of prayer ( 500 ) . |
| 28 | I think that the initial conditions of the universe are as suitable a subject for scientific study and theory as are the local physical laws . |
| 29 | The desire to disprove a false idea is as valid a basis for a piece of research as the desire to establish the truth of a new set of ideas . |
| 30 | Watford wanted £2 million as manager Steve Perryman insisted James will be as significant a signing for Liverpool as Ray Clemence — and Grobbelaar himself . |