Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While condemning the Soviet coup , Marchais had described it as understandable in view of the failure of perestroika . |
| 2 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 3 | I do n't find the whole situation as rich in humour as he does . |
| 4 | London Irish as resilient in defence as effective in attack . |
| 5 | I have found that it is not as tolerant of tank conditions as the more readily available Guppies , Platys or Mollys . |
| 6 | I know as little of love as I do of painting , he thought . |
| 7 | A man and woman who freely and willingly engage in anal intercourse are thus as guilty of buggery as a man who perpetrates a violent anal attack . |
| 8 | The hero of Waugh 's Sword of Honour trilogy ( 1952–61 ) , again , is virtuously gauche ; so is Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim in 1954 , a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice ; and so , it must be imagined , was the young Betjeman who , as he revealed in ‘ A Subaltern 's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries ( 1945 ) , adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers , whether at love or tennis : |
| 9 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 10 | ‘ The cry of Versailles and the clamour of Paris became as loud in favour of Monsieur Jones as of Monsieur Franklin , ’ wrote Franklin himself , ‘ and the inclination of the ladies to embrace him almost as fashionable and as strong . ’ |
| 11 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 12 | Repeat as many times as possible without discomfort . |
| 13 | They wanted her to be admitted as soon as possible for treatment as it seemed she had cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 14 | Another is to have more than one representative for each group or constituency , the representatives being mandated as nearly as possible in proportion to the distribution of opinion among the represented . |
| 15 | Individuals ought to contribute ‘ as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ’ ( Smith 1776 , p. 310 ) . |
| 16 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 17 | What the ads do n't say is that the food is as low on nutrition as it is high on unhealthy fats and additives . |
| 18 | Perhaps therefore Edward 's claim was not as strong in principle as has sometimes been suggested , and if accepted in 1328 it might eventually have been subject to challenge by sons born to other Capetian females . |
| 19 | SHe appreciated Dr Parmedes ' art : it would have been easy to fix the physical changes , but he had possessed the patience and expertise to make those organs as responsive to stimulation as any natural ones . |
| 20 | If nurses were as careful with time as they tend to be with money , their professional effectiveness would take a meteoric rise ’ . |
| 21 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 22 | Note that greetings , partings and various " ritual " formulae ( e.g. bless you said after a sneeze ) can be thought of as vocative in nature . |
| 23 | Similarly , the punctuation of changes of state , such as window frames , doorways , bearings and edging strips are as expressive in painting and music as they are necessary in architecture and mechanics . |
| 24 | Make your travelling as free of harassment as possible . |
| 25 | Keep your tapes somewhere that is as free of dust and moisture as possible . |
| 26 | America was hailed as the ‘ great English Republic ’ and orators hoped that England would become a country in which ‘ all denominations will be as free from State patronage or persecution as they are in the great land over which waves ‘ the star-spangled banner ’ ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ How many infants can be as free from distress as that ? |
| 28 | It is important to store pressed material flat , away from direct sunlight and as free from dust as possible . |
| 29 | First , we would prefer to leave people as free from regulation as possible in their choice of credit arrangements , as a matter of general principle . |
| 30 | Solubility : Benzene does not dissolve in water , as it is a liquid it is usually referred to as immiscible with water . |