Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
| 2 | In contrast , the contributors to this book , whilst differing between themselves in many respects , share both a critical refutation of the manner in which the inner city has commonly been taken as unproblematic and a belief in the need to use the vocabulary of popular debates to propose alternative conceptualisations of urban crisis and to subject current policy to critical examination . |
| 3 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |
| 4 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 5 | If you are interested please contact myself as soon as possible and a confidentiality letter will be sent to you . |
| 6 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 7 | Daniel Halpin : ‘ My last hat was a flowery one , the same shape as this but a bit more girlie . ’ |
| 8 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 9 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 10 | He described the drastic measures to move to a market economy as Utopian and a kind of " neo-Bolshevism . " |
| 11 | Data were compared by statistical procedures as appropriate and a p value of <0.05 was considered significant . |
| 12 | Such situations seem to be experienced as appropriate and a bonus , but by no means expected . |
| 13 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 14 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 15 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 16 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 17 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 18 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 19 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 20 | However , it could be that , in some transactions , where economic loss is suffered because of a breach caused by wilful default ( or perhaps even inadvertent default ) , such clauses would not be regarded as reasonable where a consumer suffered economic loss . |
| 21 | It now seems that Britain 's upturn started as long as a year ago . |
| 22 | It m probably not as long as a year but it 's quite a while |
| 23 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 24 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 25 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 26 | By the central pole stood a great oaken chest , three feet high and as long as a man . |
| 27 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 28 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 29 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 30 | This , while nowhere near as long as a hummingbird 's tongue , is quite long enough from this position to burgle the nectaries . |