Example sentences of "as [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this flow could be transported to North Wales , it would stand half as high as Snowdon ; if it could be transported to Surrey , it would be half as high again as the highest hill , and , such is the attraction of all high objects from mountains to the cost of living , it would be an important landmark , regularly thronged in summer with picnickers and ramblers , and would feature on scores of postcards . |
| 2 | When part of the roof collapsed and flames rose half as high again as the manor house , the firefighters drew back and restricted their efforts to keeping the outbuildings of the farm damped down . |
| 3 | The disk is high , indented interradially whereas that of O. hamula is neither indented nor as high especially in the region of the radial shields . |
| 4 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
| 5 | So they 'd want to be as much away from the air conditioning as possible , would n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | In the same way , if employees and unions have already squeezed as much out of the employer as they possibly can , the employer can not pay higher labour costs without going bankrupt . |
| 7 | His approach is particularly important in helping us to grasp that control is not just negative , and might in fact be just as tight today despite an ostensible ‘ liberalisation ’ , that power over sexuality is not in the simple form of censorship and denial but in regulation and organisation , and that this takes many forms . |
| 8 | There are two main versions , a text published in 1604 ( commonly known as the A text ) and another published in 1616 ( the B text ) which is half as long again as the A version . |
| 9 | As indicated , the later B version of the play is half as long again as the A text . |
| 10 | Dotty said it was as well right from the beginning to learn how to use greasepaint properly . |
| 11 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 12 | It 's a shame because I mean it I think what they 've got is really you know , er er er they 'd be hard put to it to get anything as good really at the price I think . |
| 13 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 14 | In actual fact , you see the plan , the two houses are going to the bottom end of the site , as far away to the adja adjacent to West Holm . |
| 15 | The two sides remained as far apart on the German problem as ever , however , and there was actually no threat the Soviets could make , short of military action , which could force concessions . |
| 16 | Electronic systems are very often concerned with processing weak signals and sometimes the nonlinearity involved is sufficiently slight for quite large signals to qualify as small enough for the purpose of linear analysis . |
| 17 | They said there were sufficient explosives to build a bomb half as big again as the one which devastated the Baltic Exchange in the City of London on April 10 , the day after the General Election . |
| 18 | One view of marine erosion would regard it as active only in the early stages of cliff development ( A to C in Fig. 8.12 ) , while at later stages the energy of the waves is dissipated on the increasingly wide rock platform so that erosion at the base of the cliff becomes ineffective , a fact attested by the degradation of the cliff by agents of subaerial weathering ( D and E in Fig. 8.12 ) . |