Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 2 | The Foundation questions whether Project Tiger — set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in the early 70s — can be termed a success , and suggests that tiger numbers in India now might be as low as when the project began . |
| 3 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 4 | Unfortunately I regard it as clear that although the consequences to them of operating a commercial port were reasonably plain from the beginning , insufficient thought was given to the question of access to the port before planning permission was granted . |
| 5 | Blaney 's intention to produce a study of evil was as clear as if the portrait had been labelled . |
| 6 | In some ways , the coaching world is like a jigsaw , in as much that when a piece of the puzzle which one felt was the perfect fit is found not to be in the right place after all , then it goes somewhere else and another piece has to be found to fill the gap . |
| 7 | Once we come to terms with the very limited although crucial place of analytic thinking among the varieties of intelligent behaviour , we draw from ‘ Be aware ’ the corollary ‘ Reason as much as and no more than will assist awareness ’ . |
| 8 | It 's not as much as as the other two but it 's still a significant amount . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : You shall be mistress of my person and fortune as much as if the foolish ceremony had passed , and I know not , but will engage for this , but I may , after a twelvemonth 's cohabitation , marry you . |
| 10 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 11 | Heinrich was as horrified as if the Kaiser himself had been insulted . |
| 12 | For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth . |
| 13 | The visibility was not nearly as good and although the aeroplane was lighter , it was nose heavy , the controls were heavier and the under carriage was narrower . |
| 14 | If the place failed as links the property was a valuable one , and there was no probability in their losing their money and in the meantime they were receiving three per cent which was as good as if the money were invested in Consols . |
| 15 | The waiter flurried between them , as busy as if the room were full . |
| 16 | This is not as objectionable though as the host of descriptions which virtually conceal the identity of the product and refer to it by any of a number of lurid , dramatic or pseudo scientific titles which bear little if any relationship to function . |
| 17 | Archaeologists have a clear responsibility : until the information contained in those records is made available to other archaeologists , and to the general public , the excavation is not complete : the information is still as inaccessible as if the site had never been excavated , and the records themselves might just as well be buried . |
| 18 | Ruth was silent , as stunned as if a bus had driven into her . |
| 19 | Er that which makes it as critical as as a lot of er paper work . |
| 20 | She felt as astonished as if the older woman had got out of her chair suddenly , and struck her across the face . |