Example sentences of "as [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is as absurd a political point as was made by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton , ( Mr. Kaufman ) . |
| 2 | The aim of the disks will be to present as complete a statistical portrayal as possible of Britain during the 1980s and the Archive has supplied national level data mainly from the large-scale Government generated reference surveys for one of the video-disks . |
| 3 | As the main object is to obtain a smooth hover , the actual idle-up controls should be set to give as nearly as possible a constant engine speed . |
| 4 | The mother was as perfect a physical specimen as we could find . |
| 5 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 6 | There are exceptions , but the fact that information is held in confidence is not as such a sufficient reason for exemption . |
| 7 | Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all . |
| 8 | He believed the relationship should be redefined to facilitate as large a British role as possible within the EEC . |
| 9 | SAVE 's immediate task was to show that a conservation scheme could generate as healthy a financial return as a cleared site . |
| 10 | Second , the cultural sector — the arts , crafts , design , and audiovisual industries — makes as great a net contribution to the economy as does the oil industry . |
| 11 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 12 | This was fortunate for the Hearts forward Ian Ferguson who was as surprised as anyone to remain on the field after flooring Gus Caesar with as good a right hook as has been seen this side of Madison Square Gardens for many a long day . |
| 13 | Jacqueline Pardoe ( Mrs Mitton ) writes : ‘ I have been determined … to be as good a traditional mother as I can while at the same time demonstrating to my daughters that it is possible to combine a family with an independent and complementary ‘ other life ’ . |
| 14 | Also about as close and as meaningful a human contact as one could dream of . |
| 15 | ‘ I have as full a social life as I want , and this town is n't short of night spots . |
| 16 | In Oscar Chinn Judge Schucking thought that parties to a treaty which had placed restrictions upon conflicting treaties concluded by less than the full complement of parties to the former treaty , could regard as invalid a subsequent treaty concluded by a minority to the first treaty . |
| 17 | Er , so the lesson we learned from tornado was that we want to try and cap our financial liabilities for the project for the development of it , at a much earlier stage and er drive as tough a commercial bargain as we possibly can . |
| 18 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 19 | Last June , the European Court of Justice declared as void a 1989 directive on harmonisation of national programmes aimed at elimination of pollution caused by waste from the industry — a particular problem in the North Sea . |
| 20 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 21 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 22 | The Schrödinger equation is as nice a differential equation as any classical physicist could wish to see . |
| 23 | But without Ceauşescu 's discretion — Bucharest was not as leaky a diplomatic centre as Washington — the American President would not have been able to achieve the one great success of his presidency , the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt . |
| 24 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
| 25 | mother and I hope father and I will be around to want to pick up what we can to help you 've got ta start thinking about standing on your own feet , you know , because admittedly I er I , I , I could turn out to be not as bad a financial state as I anticipated but I never was stinking rich and I 'm certainly not stinking rich now , so erm I mean |
| 26 | It 's a perky companion on the open road too , although not as enjoyable a driving companion as would a Peugeot 205 or a Citroen AX . |