Example sentences of "as [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 32 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 33 | as much a revolution of the non-Russian against Russification as it was a revolution of workers , peasants and radical intellectuals against autocracy . |
| 34 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 35 | Thus we shall be plunged into a show trial of the public morality every bit as much a barometer of our times as the Lady Chatterley case back in the Sixties . |
| 36 | Despite its almost unwitting commerciality , it is a true club record , as much a product of the underground scene as Smith And Mighty or Soul II Soul . |
| 37 | The editorial policy that he pursued in Monde was ultimately no doubt as much a product of his natural inclination for popular front co-operative politics , as it was a consequence of his scepticism regarding the possibilities for the development of proletarian literature in interwar capitalist France dominated by a hegemonic bourgeois cultural tradition . |
| 38 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 39 | Years of dieting and exercise had banished that slight stodginess for ever ; now her body looked lithe and firm , yet still blessed with more curves than Paula 's had ever been , as much a denial of her years as her face . |
| 40 | The boys barricaded the gates and mounted the city walls , a move probably as much a result of a popular rebellion against Lundy 's action as a defiant gesture . |
| 41 | The short , nine-day voyage was accompanied by beautiful weather , and brought with it one of Gould 's most elusive and sought-after species of petrel , one that had tantalised him for weeks aboard the Parsee , although the occasion was , as Gould liked to emphasise , as much a result of his own ingenuity as it was of chance or convenience : |
| 42 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 43 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 44 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 45 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 46 | This is as much a consequence of data on households being more easily available as necessarily a reflection of real differences between household and non-household kin . |
| 47 | Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control . |
| 48 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 49 | Question time has become increasingly taken up with party claims and counter claims or with constituency points , while debates often strike ministers as largely a waste of time . |
| 50 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 51 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 52 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 53 | She began to see herself , the self of those twenty years ago , as just a part of Willi and Gerda 's pleasure . |
| 54 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 55 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 56 | The relationship is often hostile rather than cooperative , but this can be treated as just a reversal of sign . |
| 57 | Indeed , according to Ralph Shepherd , the NEB was ‘ widely perceived as just a mouthpiece of the industry ’ . |
| 58 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 59 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 60 | The Market on Saturday evenings provided much entertainment as always a number of cheapjacks were to be found selling all sorts of items . |