Example sentences of "as [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | should of gone in the bank the same day as that the date of that letter |
| 2 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 3 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 4 | Despite opposition to their plans from many independent experts , the commission says the angle is likely to be reduced by as much as half a degree within the two years . |
| 5 | For example , one ounce of butter or margarine contains as many calories as half a pound of potatoes . |
| 6 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 7 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 8 | Can you spare as little as half an hour each day to unwind or to commune with nature ? |
| 9 | Hill-walking in remote and wild areas can be risky if you are not prepared , because the weather can change completely in as little as half an hour , and then you can find yourself walking for hours in driving wind and rain . |
| 10 | In many of Morton 's experiments , priming effects of much longer duration were observed : there can be as much as half an hour between the primer and primed , or sometimes a day or more ( Scarborough , Cortese and Scarborough , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 12 | A clause would not normally be construed as allowing one party to render no performance at all , as such a clause would undermine the main purpose of the contract . |
| 13 | ‘ It came as such a shock , but since I got over it , life 's been brilliant . |
| 14 | ‘ I see this as such a rite of passage — you get signed to a major , you get money , you go into the studio , a big 24-track hubbub , either it sells or it does n't . |
| 15 | As such a singularity is approached , some physical quantities diverge and all observers feel unbounded tidal forces . |
| 16 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 17 | The causative organism of scabies is a mite , and as such a member of the class Arachnida , which includes the spiders and scorpions . |
| 18 | As such a facility only permits the replacement of the commercial paper with new indebtedness rather than its extension , the FRED would require the paper to be shown as a short-term liability . |
| 19 | If his notion of the mode of production as such a totality could not be sustained in a differential relation to other modes of production ( notions of residual and emergent forms notwithstanding ) , Althusser nevertheless offered a particularly interesting theorization of the problems involved in the concept of the historical , articulating the paradoxical conditions of any theorization of history . |
| 20 | Thus Guide uses a troff style of mark-up : our above example of a Book-title would be stored in a source file as Such a representation makes it easy to write a UNIX script to , say , extract all the Book-title s from a Guide document , sort them into order , and delete duplicates . |
| 21 | It is very sad to think that after Anna tragically committed suicide under a train , only a few people are grieved and the rest of society regard it ‘ as such a woman deserved to end . |
| 22 | On this principle , it has been authoritatively stated that no injunction should be granted by the civil courts to restrain the dissemination of allegedly obscene books , as such a step would pre-empt the ultimate decision of a jury . |
| 23 | Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’ |
| 24 | ’ ’ Your Majesty , ’ Buckingham interposed with emphasis , ‘ onerous as such a duty may be , it is the unanimously expressed will of your subjects ’ . ' |
| 25 | As such a concentration upon ‘ women as carers ’ neglects the very important contribution of male carers ( Arber and Gilbert 1989 ) . |
| 26 | As such a design advances into greater detail , the latest additions can be checked against those inserted previously , so that throughout the development it is possible to maintain the functional and spatial requirements of the system . |
| 27 | The EC Agriculture Commissioner , Raymond MacSharry , said that the EC would not completely eliminate export subsidies , as such a policy would drive " 3,000,000-4,000,000 farmers out of business " . |
| 28 | There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ . |
| 29 | As such the Centre may also be a blueprint of how central government could support wildlife conservation on redundant farmland and enable existing farming families to remain on the land with the new role of guardians of the traditional countryside and its wildlife . |
| 30 | Even Port Glasgow , the centre of the Chesapeake tobacco trade , and as such the port with the largest customs establishment in Scotland , could have an unqualified officer placed in a position of responsibility . |