Example sentences of "as [adj] as [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system . |
| 2 | Wood was as scarce as silver in the poorer parts of Cairo . |
| 3 | I steered clear of Daniel 's murder , but he 's as guilty as hell in the other case too . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I shall be as right as rain in no time . ’ |
| 5 | That 'll bring the bruising out and the ankle will be as right as rain in a week or two . ’ |
| 6 | High , lonely hills , where the wind and the sound carry and the ground 's as dry as straw in a barn . |
| 7 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 8 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 9 | Although the mechanical properties of copper-based alloys are readily modified by working and heat treatment , they are not as versatile as iron in this respect . |
| 10 | The curtains were drawn still and on this winter day it was almost as dark as night in here . |
| 11 | She though the place well-named , for the hall was bleak and comfortless and as cold as winter in High Tor . |
| 12 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 13 | Down to the end of the Middle Kingdom silver was twice as valuable as gold in ancient Egypt . |
| 14 | It is therefore interesting to discover that something as basic as fashion in furniture has been altered by a single cold winter . |
| 15 | Life under the bamboo is just as trite as life in the city where Doris , Klipstein , and Krumpacker exchange their polite , meaningless words . |
| 16 | It is usually as effective as surgery in treating bile duct stones and involves a shorter hospital stay . |
| 17 | These agents seem as effective as sulphasalazine in the treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis , and in the short term are less toxic . |
| 18 | Brief counselling is at least as effective as medication in most people facing such problems ( Catalan et al. 1984 a ) . |
| 19 | Although side effects in our study were minimal , oral fluticasone propionate 5 mg four times daily was not as effective as prednisolone in standard doses in the treatment of ulcerative colitis . |
| 20 | This trial has shown that elemental diet , when tolerated , is as effective as prednisolone in treating acute Crohn 's disease in the short term , and confirms the result from the original study of O'Morain et al . |
| 21 | City : Property without solid foundations Bricks and mortar were once thought to be be as good as money in the bank . |
| 22 | Both are as good as money in the bank . |
| 23 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 24 | Yesterday a minister from an urban priority area er while er welcoming the thought of a an urban priority area fund or urban and rural priority area fund , said that people were at least as important as money in many situations . |
| 25 | Although only around one-third as important as consumption in total aggregate demand , investment is arguably one of its most significant components . |
| 26 | The population reconstructions of Wrigley and Schofield ( 1981 ) support them and indicate that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries fertility change was about twice as important as mortality in accounting for variations in population growth , and that declines in mortality were modest until the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The language feminists used to make this appeal was steeped in the evangelical tradition , which in the early and mid-nineteenth century had proved as successful as science in containing women , but which in the later part of the century was used by feminists to argue for an extension of maternal influence beyond the home . |
| 28 | She pushed back her hair , as bright as copper in the sunshine that slanted through the big bay window . |
| 29 | As significant as quota in changing the nature of British film production was the arrival of the sound film . |