Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maiolica as weak as the lira |
| 2 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 3 | A manager is only as strong as the staff will enable that manager to be ? |
| 4 | Dennis Mather , James 's uncle , urged the public to contain their anger , saying that the family were just as enraged as the people of the surrounding area . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 6 | They were as sportive as a pair of shire horses . |
| 7 | The picturesque village seems as surreal as the series at first sight . |
| 8 | In person , however , they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank . |
| 9 | And also , bear in mind that , we can argue this is divisional problems as much as a headquarters C A problem those members of staff are owned by division . |
| 10 | You 're like every other man I 've ever met , you assume a woman who looks like me ca n't feel complete without a man , but , as a much wiser woman than I once said , a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle . ’ |
| 11 | But they have Richard Littlejohn and he weighs at least as much as a bison . |
| 12 | Even the PTTs ‘ electronic telephone directory ’ turned out to cost twice as much as the £50 planned . |
| 13 | While both gentlemen shared the comfort of a horse and buggy to the course , however , the boys had to hot-foot it at a brisk jog behind the carriage — ‘ an exercise to be relished almost as much as the tuppence we got for caddying , ’ Fred used to say . |
| 14 | like a lot of these politicians they exploit the media as much as the media exploit them . |
| 15 | The system challenges the management as much as the staff and this is a vital element in its acceptability . |
| 16 | We often see the words ‘ feed sparingly several times a day ’ or ‘ feed as much as the fish will eat ’ , but frankly this is very ambiguous . |
| 17 | Dice up the leaves and feed only as much as the fish will consume in ten minutes . |
| 18 | Even assessments as tiny as the £4 of Robert Fonten of Burcott in Wing and the 20s. of William Taylor of Soulbury were both annotated ‘ in all England ’ . |
| 19 | Although he defines his terms carefully , Hecht is still somewhat confusing when he writes : ‘ The servant class , then , was composed of recruits from social levels as diverse as the gentry and the rural proletariat … |
| 20 | I 'd never seen him in anything as soft-looking , as human as the pair of scruffy trousers , open-necked shirt and dressing-gown he wore then . |
| 21 | These are handsome , rusty brown birds with a remarkably amicable disposition for a bird of prey , though they can catch a rabbit or a bird as large as a heron with ease . |
| 22 | With serial files the records need only be as large as the data to be stored and there are no empty records . |
| 23 | The other thing of course is that you have n't got any choice anyway , because the yen to have children is about as basic as the yen to have sex . |
| 24 | I 'm sure we would be equally as good as a pair . ’ |
| 25 | In the end , however attractive the idea of glasnost , it is only as good as the people who must make it work . |
| 26 | Guarantees are , however , only as good as the people or businesses giving them . |
| 27 | ACE schemes are only as good as the people who run them . |
| 28 | They are , of course , like computers , only as good as the people who program them , and do not offer miracle solutions to impossible situations . |
| 29 | The train of thought that begins like this is as slippery as an eel , and the only effective way to catch it is to examine the truth of the matter . |
| 30 | ‘ He is , ’ she said most woundingly , ‘ as slippery as an eel . ’ |