Example sentences of "[adj] today as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |
| 2 | Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did . |
| 3 | Mushy peas are believed to have originated in the North and remain as popular today as they have ever been . |
| 4 | But unlike the brachiopods the molluscs are probably as diverse today as they have ever been . |
| 5 | The front cover says , how would you feel if you were working just as hard today as ten years ago , but earning a third less ? |
| 6 | Dave 15 ) It is as cold today as yesterday . |
| 7 | But it 's not quite as cold today as it was yest , you know during the week cos it 's then erm |
| 8 | Beveridge 's four social evils of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance must remain as much the primary targets of any party of the left today as when he first wrote about them half a century ago . |
| 9 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 10 | The airport was set to remain closed today as talks continued , but a spokesman said the management was ‘ fairly hopeful ’ of a successful outcome . |
| 11 | The same inherent chemical element is present today as when the sport began . |
| 12 | Changes in social and commercial conditions , and changes in the moral values of the community , mean that the Courts will not always find the same reasons for the enforcement of promises to be good today as their forbears did ; equally it is likely that they will often find good reasons for the enforcement of promises where their predecessors did not . |
| 13 | But for the caring and hard work of the Pet Rescue Fund Committee many animals would not be alive and well today as they deserve to be . |
| 14 | Its therapies have stood the test of time and are as effective today as they were two hundred years ago . |
| 15 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |
| 16 | Guinness has maintained this tradition , believing that making a contribution to the society in which it prospers is as important today as it was when the company was founded . |
| 17 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 18 | Young Ferguson 's determined attitude will be required in full today as United attempt a recovery exercise following defeats by Sheffield United and Everton . |
| 19 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 20 | I 've been doing that today as well . |
| 21 | Well we said that was mild today as well . |
| 22 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 23 | The hard reality of Labour 's electoral predicament remains the same today as yesterday . |
| 24 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 25 | Although the telephone has become commonplace in most of our homes , and is essential to business , its principles are the same today as they were when Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876 . |
| 26 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 27 | The economic differences between a farmer and his workers are as wide today as they ever were ( probably wider when wealth as well as income is taken into account ) , but the social distance between them has been considerably reduced . |
| 28 | This is its historic mission , as necessary today as it was 100 years ago . |
| 29 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 30 | The ideals of the Hospitaller Order are as relevant today as they were in the 16th century when the Order was founded — to meet ‘ All in Need ’ , no matter their colour , race or creed . |