Example sentences of "least as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some indicators , such as unemployment , may have classified these developments as being at least as deprived as the inner-urban areas , but they did not gain from the inner-city initiative . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we are at least as strong as the Oxford crew physically and we have more experience , though the ages of the crews are almost identical . |
| 3 | But they have Richard Littlejohn and he weighs at least as much as a bison . |
| 4 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 5 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 6 | As villages grew into towns and towns into cities , the lack of churchyards was felt at least as much as the lack of churches . |
| 7 | Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS . |
| 8 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 9 | If this move is sound , our second sceptical argument attacks the notion of justified belief at least as much as the first argument does ; in fact even more , because it is more global . |
| 10 | Greeks valued the second kind , which included freedom to oppress and dominate , at least as much as the first . |
| 11 | It was , however , his own personality at least as much as the difficulties of the position he had inherited which prevented his following in the footsteps of Louis XIV . |
| 12 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 13 | One essential feature of a switching language is that it be at least as specific as the languages to and from which it supports switching . |
| 14 | In fact the work of fracture , W , turned out to be around 10 4 J/m 2 , which , weight for weight , is at least as good as a ductile steel and a good deal better than ‘ tough ’ composites like fibreglass . |
| 15 | The argue that the quality of management and of the business generally are at least as good as the other media majors and this is not yet reflected , according to them , in the price of the shares . |
| 16 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 17 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 18 | Particularly with Office Systems and Groupware applications the information issues may be at least as complex as the technology . |
| 19 | This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant . |
| 20 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 21 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 22 | This is at least as controversial as the original finding ; its meaning is not clear , nor is the nature of the difference between the different D2s . |
| 23 | Miss Potts looked so disbelieving , Mademoiselle exaggerated the size of the spider and held out her hands to show Miss Potts it was at least as big as a fair sized frog . |
| 24 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 25 | This superb recital illustrates that the art of transcription is , in its finest form , at least as valuable as the art of variation on a borrowed theme . |
| 26 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 27 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 28 | The display territory must be at least as large as the floor area of your tank — and so yours undoubtedly supposes that any female who visits him is ready to spawn . |
| 29 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 30 | No matter how Boswell did it physically — and later it will transpire that he wrote some of it in a notebook Johnson gave him ; no matter how he proceeded editorially , whether through a combination of this abbreviated writing , then checking afterwards what was said , and finally choosing — or agreeing — how much of Johnson 's commentary and observation he should release , Boswell achieved something at least as important as a legally accurate record — he created , above everything , the feel of a full account . |