Example sentences of "is as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , that is as wide as a sword blade . |
| 2 | The range of women returning to work ‘ is as wide as the range of occupations women work in , although that in itself is restrictive ’ . |
| 3 | The final weapon is the tongue , which is as rough as a rasp and is used for stripping hair and skin from the flesh , though the tiger eats plenty of both , probably as roughage . |
| 4 | Levy 's voice is as rough as a shag on the floor of a sandpaper factory , the lyric is utterly ridiculous , describing the popularity and stylishness of a certain fashionable item , and the soprano sax added to that tender little guitar lick from the Arrested Development record just upsets your soul . |
| 5 | The hair used is a special polyester filament that is as firm as a very good quality hog , but with a more sensitive feel . |
| 6 | The Python mixture of surrealism and Oxbridge set texts — a ‘ summarising Proust ’ competition in a municipal baths ; phoning Sartre 's wife ‘ Is John Paul free ? ’ 'He 's been asking himself that for years ' — is as familiar as the silly walks , deceased parrot and other images that have gained cult status . |
| 7 | This means that the data analysis stage is as crucial as the implementation stage of the computer applications . |
| 8 | As Labov remarks : ‘ A hidden tape-recorder and a hidden microphone produce data which is as dubious as the method itself ’ ( Labov 1981 : 32 ) . |
| 9 | The paid work of women at home is as invisible as the unpaid work of women at home , and as poorly rewarded as the work of women the world over . |
| 10 | A novel has therefore these two interrelated modes of existence — as a fiction , and as a text ; and , to adapt Lodge 's statement to our own purpose , it is as text-maker that the novelist works in language , and it is as fiction-maker that he works through language . |
| 11 | Nothing is as powerful as a two-way dialogue , the proposition countered by the ‘ Yes , but … ’ which in turn can be satisfactorily answered by the proposer . |
| 12 | And while they certainly are open to research and development and to further invention , the way they evolve is as complex as the evolution of the natural world . |
| 13 | To start with the first problem : How can a relatively simple and compact theory give rise to a universe that is as complex as the one we observe , with all its trivial and unimportant details ? |
| 14 | Dialogue of this type can be used effectively when the reader has settled into a story , knows exactly who 's who by the way they speak , and is as anxious as the author to reach the crisis point . |
| 15 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |
| 16 | Normally you sit in er you know the trouble is as long as the police are n't here . |
| 17 | His mind is as fixed as the pole star . ’ |
| 18 | In the bleak brick corridor that , tonight , the three of them are obliged to call a dressing room , the atmosphere is as buoyant as a funeral . |
| 19 | ‘ Shrub says that this is as close as the geese can go , ’ Thing said . |
| 20 | Together , under Caroline Paterson 's skilled direction , the company finds an idiom for a humour which is as sharp as an arrowhead and as hard as flint , and a style for an emotion which is shaped from the very suppression and denial of feeling . |
| 21 | From Sicilian wide-boys and regency rakes , to upright City chaps and downright nasty mobsters , the inspiration is as varied as a Hollywood archive . |
| 22 | And the weather , from one part of this diminutive island to another , is as varied as the people . |
| 23 | The postgraduate student population is as varied as the programme itself . |
| 24 | The vegetation of the Kingdoms of the East is as varied as the animals that live in them . |
| 25 | The nature of scientific discovery is as varied as the nature of science itself . |
| 26 | Well , now I want to introduce another of Fodor 's theses which , for my money , is as correct as the other two are false . |
| 27 | They point out that setting up a screening system that is as accurate as the UK one is very difficult . |
| 28 | In parts of Provence , though , farmers still keep green tree frogs under glass bells so that their croaking can warn of rain , and many people keep a piece of dried seaweed , claiming that it is as accurate as the human meteorologist 's forecast . |
| 29 | Indeed , evidence already exists that the first meiotic metaphase is as susceptible as the second ( Development in Mammals , vol 1 , p 145 ) . |
| 30 | IT IS as well that the Princess Royal has a salty sense of humour . |