Example sentences of "as [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 2 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 3 | Even as distinguished a scholar as Karl Rahner loyally attempted to fall in line with papal doctrine , but only at considerable cost to his credibility . |
| 4 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 5 | This question produces as varied a response as the first . |
| 6 | Power Chess is as expected a computer implementation of the famous strategic board game . |
| 7 | He uses a variety of dogs for his creations , but his preferred canine poseurs are his own pets Man Ray ( as committed a surrealist as his illustrious namesake , by all accounts ) and the gorgeous , pouting Fay Ray ( the mutt on the right in the above pic ) . |
| 8 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 9 | Subject as aforesaid a purpose is charitable if either : |
| 10 | And now , even if you 've never so much as threaded a needle before , you can create beautiful items with the help of the new generation of computerised sewing machines from New Home . |
| 11 | In Ernest and Elizabeth 's awful old kitchen , which had last had a re-fit in 1926 and in which Cecilia herself would not have so much as peeled a potato , though nothing would have made her say so , Tina was baking a birthday cake for Bienvida . |
| 12 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 13 | After all , we all know how often we tell the truth , and I 'm sure it does n't seem anything like as complicated a process as I 've said it is . |
| 14 | Whichever substance you use , put it on in as concentrated a form as you can using a large paint brush . |
| 15 | What lies behind Tory ‘ taking stock ’ is just as confused a set of assumptions . |
| 16 | That quondam Nazi , Peregrine , is now nearly as reformed a character as you are — that 's all I 'll write . ’ |
| 17 | He took an almost paternal interest in them , and fretted about the fact that they did not lead as settled a life as they needed in order to work properly : he believed , for example , that Auden was wasting his talents . |
| 18 | None of this implies that molecular biology is simply a higher form of botanizing as practised a century ago ; on the contrary , people 's descriptions of their experimental methods are replete with numerical information about such things as the concentrations of reagents . |
| 19 | Erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 20 | Th was it 's a little personal thing w with me , erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 21 | As happened a decade before , the king quickly set about securing the return of his exiles . |
| 22 | The booklet provides as detailed a statement of the law as is reasonably possible . |
| 23 | Cage is at his slovenly best as a decent , honest , out-of-work roughneck named Michael while Hopper twitches with ruthless bravado as grinning psycho Lyle — as quick to buy you a drink as put a bullet in your forehead . |
| 24 | A parser is a program which takes as input a sentence and a grammar , and which constructs such a parse tree . |
| 25 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 26 | My own data format convertor takes as input a set of digitized points and allows the user to specify the order in which the x , y coordinates are written to a disc file . |
| 27 | After much discussion , it was deemed that ‘ Relocate Your Business In Newport Gwent ’ was about as wasted a message as it was possible to buy . |
| 28 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |