Example sentences of "as [adj] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce had made her a mauve embroidered organza frock salvaged as usual from the poor box . |
| 2 | We seek to make such discussions as different as possible from the normal way in which we work . |
| 3 | The objective of a company taking advantage of these provisions , therefore , is to conceal as much of its activities as possible from the outside world and therefore maintain a degree of confidentiality . |
| 4 | On the other side a conservative party , led by Cranmer 's old Cambridge acquaintance Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , though accepting the royal supremacy , wanted as little change as possible from the Roman Catholic order . |
| 5 | THINK TIGHT , think sharp , think as far away as possible from the recent loose flowing , Eastern hippy influences . |
| 6 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 7 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 8 | Cook in the oven for 20 minutes , then pour away as much fat as possible from the roasting tin . |
| 9 | In an attempt to learn as much as possible from the capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise the Treasury Solicitor has asked questions which should help to prevent a similar disaster ever recurring . |
| 10 | Only he truly knows whether they were cheap pictures produced with one aim , to make as much money as possible from the least amount of effort , or whether he had other more high-flown artistic notions in mind . |
| 11 | The fact that this revelation would doubtless be made in a context of privacy and confidentiality so as to insulate him as far as possible from the prying eyes of scandalmongers may not reduce his desire to put actual and legal distance between himself and his spouse . |
| 12 | The main concern over the century was to shift as much as possible from the first to the second form . |
| 13 | Her clothes were as different as possible from the Victorian get-up of the other one . |
| 14 | Although this system will use as many standard equipment and software products as possible from the current IBM sales catalogue , the configuration of these products will be unique . |
| 15 | For example , researchers may attempt to obtain a series of lengthy in-depth interviews with senior buyers or decision-makers in industrial organisations , whilst consumer market research might concentrate on getting a limited amount of specific information from as large a sample as possible from the relevant population . |
| 16 | ULSTER people have been urged to learn foreign languages , especially German , to gain as much benefit as possible from the single European Market . |
| 17 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 18 | It was generally agreed that it should be raised as far as possible from the social groups of least value . |
| 19 | The Ness is shallow and peaceful , and the murmur of its flowing falls plaintively on the ear , in sympathy with the song of the birds , and the summer tintings of the trees , and the musings of those who seem to love each turning in the paths ; while the waters of the rapids of Niagara make the onlooker hold back his breath , and keep back as far as possible from the wild leaping of the swift-rushing waters . |
| 20 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 21 | Benjamin also understood popular culture as inseparable from the social , but such popular culture forms for Benjamin ( who was influenced , on the one hand , by Brecht and , on the other , by surrealism ) could have radical political potential for the masses ( Rose 1978 , pp. 1091–35 ) . |
| 22 | A question that remains , however , is whether one can and should treat this matter as separate from the other functions described below . |
| 23 | A more recent review of the issue of imputation in the sociology of knowledge by Alan Scott suggests that the problem is with seeing knowledge/ideology as separate from the social grouping to which it has then to be linked by imputation . |
| 24 | The Christians did not initially think of themselves as separate from the Jewish people , though Jesus had had severe things to say about Pharisees . |
| 25 | This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were . |
| 26 | Still , the need for a specific and general science of society ( as distinct from the various relevant special disciplines already dealing with human affairs ) was for the first time seriously felt . |
| 27 | The final phase of academic school examinations , as distinct from the vocational examinations already mentioned , is , and seems likely to remain for the foreseeable future , the GCE A level . |
| 28 | By virtue of s41 of CPA 1987 , breach of a safety regulation , as distinct from the general safety requirement , is also grounds for a civil action by any person affected which can not be excluded or limited by any contract term or notice . |
| 29 | Generalisation is therefore not easy , and its value is limited , even if we confine it — as we must — to the relatively developed countries as distinct from the backward , to the urban working classes as distinct from the agrarian and peasant sectors . |
| 30 | It is evident , nevertheless , that Disraeli 's comments on architecture in the trilogy , as distinct from The Young Duke , become evaluations of the society that produced such buildings ; and his comments on that society become , in their turn , a manifesto for his own time . |