Example sentences of "as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 2 | Politically the post-1945 world has not been unified , but bi- polar , and organised round two superpowers which may just be describable as jumbo-sized nations , but certainly not as parts of an international state system of the 19th-century or pre-1939 type . |
| 3 | It is possible to catalogue a chorus of social self-congratulation , as respectable commentators recount the positive achievement of tranquillity since the days of their youth , as the very epitome of social progress . |
| 4 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 5 | He had immense difficulties to overcome , partly because of the average Englishman 's prejudice against foreigners ( especially perhaps the French ) and partly because of the then prejudice of society against a science — veterinary medicine — which was not yet established as respectable . |
| 6 | Kang proposed that the two states should acquire separate UN membership as a temporary measure until such time as Korean reunification was achieved . |
| 7 | As pungent smoke was blown into her face , Diana 's eyes went red and watery . |
| 8 | This cigarette tasted different ; it was a Gauloise , and it tasted of France , as pungent , as unacceptably alien as that knotty sausage . |
| 9 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 10 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 11 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 12 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 13 | This has been particularly marked in production as multinational corporations organize their processes on a worldwide scale and ‘ source ’ parts for their finished products from factories , workshops and even domestic labour [ ’ putting-out' or ‘ homeworkers ' ] linked in an international network . |
| 14 | Small and medium-sized firms as well as multinational corporations interact in UK manufacturing , and manufacturing firms interact with financial institutions and other enterprises in the growing service sector . |
| 15 | Finding the foreign exchange to pay for permissions may be difficult , especially as multinational publishers often change high prices for the use of material . |
| 16 | The lining will be hidden since a garment receiving this type of treatment deserves to be lined as well as interlined . |
| 17 | Make up the pinch pleats as Interlined Curtains , leaving a tiny space on either side of the pleats ( fig. 38 ) . |
| 18 | The next part is a quotation of what the hypothetical invitation would sound like , and is characterised by a [ Creole ] pronunciation of the vowels in go and outside , though the phrase as a whole ( " go outside for freshair " ) is not clearly marked as Creole . |
| 19 | At the phonological level , for example , we find Creole words like picky-picky , " frizzy " , are used within London English , their pronunciation " nativised " , while elsewhere we find the London pronunciations breaf and frough ( /bref/ and /fru : / for /bre / and / ru : / ) within stretches of speech in other ways clearly marked as Creole . |
| 20 | Ealing Studios made films as untypical of itself as Dead of Night ( 1945 ) , a collection of mostly unsettling tales of the fantastic and of hidden desires that erupt from below , Pink String and Sealing Wax ( 1945 ) , in which the son of a strict father becomes the unwitting accomplice in a woman 's murder of her husband , and even a costume melodrama , Saraband for Dead Lovers ( 1948 , Saraband in US ) . |
| 21 | The capacity of the mature human individual to run through whole sets of possible scenarios as imagined responses to a problem situation or as a means to achieve a goal so far existent only in thought , is the secret of human ascendancy . |
| 22 | CLAUDIUS : ( Leading out procession ) Sweet Gertrude , leave us , too , For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither , That he , as t'were by accident , may here Affront Ophelia … |
| 23 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 24 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 25 | As 120 jobs were axed at Scottish Power 's giant Longannet coal-fired power station in Fife yesterday , the Government announced plans to create 1.5 million new training places to help the long-term unemployed . |
| 26 | A study of the rural North East showed that critical thresholds may be as low as 120 persons , below which there is a precipitous fall-off in all services ( Edwards 1964 ) . |
| 27 | We have successfully recovered ds DNA fragments as small as 120 bp . |
| 28 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 29 | The sudden , sharp increase in cross-Atlantic skiing traffic owes much to the claims of some American resorts that they can guarantee snow cover , even if as much as 75 per cent of it may be man-made . |
| 30 | Taking Conrad 's population and suggesting good speech as 75 per cent words in sentences correctly identified by listeners ( a higher cut-off than Braybrook uses ) , then in the hearing loss range 80 — 120dB ( Braybrook 's range ) , there would be 15 children . |