Example sentences of "as [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 2 | Assuming any records were kept , pollution was as much a state secret as the artillery 's ammunition stocks . |
| 3 | Taunton is as much a success story for the employees as for anyone else . |
| 4 | The White Park , which in the past was as much a colour type as a breed , had several representatives in Wales such as the Chartley herd and the Vaynol or Faenol Park herd at Bangor ( originally from Scotland ) . |
| 5 | In Orwell 's time , Wigan was as much a cotton town as it was a coal town , and if his excavation of the elements of exploitation was to have been adequate , it could not have omitted the experience of women in the cotton industry . |
| 6 | Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers . |
| 7 | Daily we are becoming more aware that AIDS is as much a development issue as it is a health issue . |
| 8 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 9 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 10 | It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything . |
| 11 | Yet Thai business remains as much a family affair as ever . |
| 12 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 13 | Seen by some as just a price/performance kicker in its initial guises , Intel is having well-documented problems in getting yields of the more important 66MHz part ( UX No 410 ) , and is reportedly still unable to get power consumption on the thing down to four watts . |
| 14 | ‘ People would be wrong to think of me as just a centre forward who is good in the air . |
| 15 | BRIAN Deane , Sheffield United 's star striker , last night asked not to be thought of as just a target man . |
| 16 | I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’ |
| 17 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 18 | The mechanical response is usually determined at low frequencies and over as wide a temperature range as possible and examples of each are described in the following section . |
| 19 | Providers will have every incentive to treat as many patients as possible , in as high a cost category as possible , for ‘ referrals by GPs to hospital with whom no contracts have been placed ’ ( DoH , 1989a , para.4.24 ) and for referrals of temporary residents . |
| 20 | Single people living in a house on their own paid as high a rate bill as a family of four , all of whom were earning and using local services . |
| 21 | I think the erm character of Rochester , yes , he comes across as a er er as quite a mystery man . |
| 22 | This period can be seen as almost a power struggle between the K M T and the C C P competing for peasant support , and the policy changes during this period reflect a change from mass mobilization and smashing local maximizing agricultural production . |
| 23 | For the hard-line republican position , there is even a duality : protestant loyalists are taken as foreigners with an alien culture , and as either a pariah group — the mere instrument of British imperialism — or simply not there . |
| 24 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 25 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 26 | Transfers and new appointments were made from the mainland to BBC Northern Ireland so that it became almost as firmly a government instrument as , for instance , the army 's information office in Lisburn . |