Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're also doing a lot of work on the component costings , trying to get the best deals possible in order to make the new combo as competitive as possible . |
| 2 | I then put a cream silk backing on the mount , again to keep the overall effect as plain as possible , since I planned to design a fairly full flower combination in the oval aperture . |
| 3 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 4 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 5 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 6 | He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . |
| 7 | This woman has a talent as big as her shoulder muscles . |
| 8 | To keep the instrument as simple as possible , no voltage regulator has been incorporated to keep the d.c. supply to IC1 at a constant level . |
| 9 | For himself , he did not find the piece as graceful as could be wished , but Alice seemed to find it most enjoyable and had giggled over its charms ever since . |
| 10 | It would be unfair to say that Cohen plays safe , but it does seem that his range of touch is not yet as comprehensive as Zimerman 's ( DG ) , nor his structural grasp as infallible as Pollini 's ( also DG ) or his poetic sensibility as individual as Brendel 's ( Philips ) . |
| 11 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 12 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 13 | The benefit of this one as well is if , let's just say we , that you knocked him right down on his money force as cheap a buy as possible then ask if you can do a hundred percent . |
| 14 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 15 | Erm , and , that is , that is not a good deal as far as my shared genes are concerned . |
| 16 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 17 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 18 | She rummaged around in a handbag as big as my trumpet case and eventually found a length of till receipt from a grocery store . |
| 19 | Always try to scan a photograph as near to the size you want it rather than use software to re-scale it , optically reducing scanners are a great help here . |
| 20 | The root of the word is French fable , a term as broad and adaptable as Modern English " story " . |
| 21 | I mention that this mechanical bird has three blades because we have here something of great importance for a photographer — the three blades are designed to give a far smoother ride than the two-bladed machine , and because of this it is possible to shoot at a speed as low as 125th of a second . |
| 22 | Erm , it 's unusual for anybody to have their speed as low as forty miles an hour so I 'm very disappointed in having a radial road that I think should be a fairly fast route out of town thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 23 | ‘ Give me your money , ’ said the boatman , ‘ and I 'll have a boat as good as yours . ’ |
| 24 | Some reports put the number of people on the boat as high as 1,500 . |
| 25 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 26 | The terminals are among the biggest single development sites in Europe with the 750ha Sangatte terminal as large as Heathrow Airport . |
| 27 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 28 | ‘ John may be mad , but he 'd never buy a horse as hot as that as a first horse for his daughter ! ’ |
| 29 | For what shines through this ornate and perhaps deliberately misleading surface is a family as lively and tragic as the Knoxes , a sense of grief as private and clear as Penelope Fitzgerald 's . |
| 30 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |