Example sentences of "was as [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 2 | I was told by a Milanese , with a wry smile , that it was as well the prophet had not heard of smog , or that would have been included as well . |
| 3 | She had overslept which was not surprising given the amount of rich food and drink consumed the previous day at the Danbys so it was as well the meet did not assemble until eleven-ish . |
| 4 | It was as disgusting a concoction as I have seen and not particularly cheap . |
| 5 | Their craggy Nab , poised above the Tees estuary , was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping . |
| 6 | The number of their supporters , if not activists , was enormously enhanced by the way in which the Vichy régime had mobilized the country 's youth in patriotic but hitherto innocuous associations which now underpinned the revolution , perhaps even to the point where youth was as critical a factor in the Vietnamese revolution as it was , at the same time , in Indonesia . |
| 7 | And if you think I 'm to be taken in that easy , Miss Jennifer , then think again ! " and muttering to himself that it was as great a pity to see women weep as geese go barefoot , he took Ann by the arm and went back into his house . |
| 8 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 9 | When he came to serve the Parliament , Charles I thought that he was as great a monopolist as those arraigned . |
| 10 | In his own sphere , Keynes was as great an adventurer as Lloyd George in his , and I doubt whether the old Liberalism or the new was entirely safe in his hands . |
| 11 | It was the acquittal of the four policemen who beat Rodney King that touched off the most lethal urban riot in American history ( 50 dead , the majority of them black and Latino ) , but the memory of the killing of Latasha Harlins was as potent a spark in igniting the intifada . |
| 12 | He knew very well that fear of Securitate informers was as effective a way of hamstringing opposition as actually deploying agents in the field . |
| 13 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 14 | In time ‘ Oriental sex ’ was as standard a commodity as any other available in the mass culture . |
| 15 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 16 | The decision was as rational a move as every other move in Jackie 's career . |
| 17 | No , I 'd say that wife of his was as unsuitable a sick-nurse as you could find . ’ |
| 18 | It was as suitable a match as any could be for Ireland 's heiress . ’ |
| 19 | The sansculotte was as familiar a subject in Gillray 's 1793 output , as had been the inadequacies of the British Royal Family in the previous year . |
| 20 | The Unix festival , Uniforum ‘ 93 , did n't feel like it was as successful a show as it was last year . |
| 21 | It was as much a speech to slam eleven years of Conservative government as to promote himself as a statesman , capable of assuming the role of Prime Minister . |
| 22 | It was important to get there and a lift in Miles ' odious yellow Cortina was as good a way as any other . |
| 23 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 24 | He was destined to head Romania 's nuclear power and research programme , which was as good a reason to emigrate as any other . |
| 25 | I do n't think it was as good a Cabinet and certainly the debates on economic policy really ceased to exist . |
| 26 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 27 | It was as good a time as ever — the lawnmower season starts in mid-February , so any deal has to be done now . ’ |
| 28 | With John going to Wildenrath , Lindsey decided it was as good a time as ever to be converted onto his aircraft and in October John converted Lindsey onto the Corsair , and in doing so , Lindsey went from 230hp in the ‘ Me 108 ’ to 2,400hp in the Corsair , a horsepower-leap that must be the largest anyone flying warbirds has ever done . |
| 29 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 30 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |