Example sentences of "as [adj] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemists will have to keep as narrow a watch on these minor elements as our astronomers do on the minor planets , or we shall not know where we are ’ . |
| 2 | The other Mario , all 5ft 6ins of him , faces as tall a challenge on the 151ft statue . |
| 3 | However robustness is not as great a factor on the desktop as on the server . |
| 4 | As many a parent on the mainland of Europe could observe , legislation can not force co-operation , neither can it create harmony in school . |
| 5 | The repression of the Stolypin years took as heavy a toll on the SRs as the SDs and the party suffered a major blow to both its morale and organization in 1908 when E.F . |
| 6 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 7 | That apart , the book is as encyclopaedic a work on homebuilding and homebuilts as you could hope to find , as befits the fastest growing sector of general aviation , and the one where the greatest innovation is now to be found . |