Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 2 | Write these in capital letters rather than your normal handwriting as this will be slower and more deliberate and you are therefore more likely to remember what you have written . |
| 3 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 4 | It is impossible to lay down precisely the contents of this rule as this may vary depending on the circumstances and the type of function being exercised . |
| 5 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 6 | Do n't sleep in an overheated room as this can cause fluid retention in your face and bags under the eyes . |
| 7 | It is ‘ very cold , very handsome , and very dull ’ : ‘ Who 'd live in such a great , overgrown place as this , ’ Lady Glencora asks , ‘ if they could get a comfortable house like Matching ? ’ |
| 8 | No other user may have an interest in the module ie. no other LIFESPAN user may have a package which references this module as this would involve more than module baselining . |
| 9 | Smooth-trowelled finishes can be slippery in winter , so it 's best to finish with a wooden float as this will give a slightly textured surface . |
| 10 | However , I suggested that it would be better for her to come back after another week as this would give her time to think over all that had happened , to listen to the cassette if she wished and to continue to practise her relaxation and visualization techniques . |
| 11 | Overall , the world 's savanna lands ( those in Australia have been omitted from this discussion as this chapter deals specifically with developing countries ) present both considerable potential and considerable environmental degradation . |
| 12 | Many National Savings instruments pay tax free interest as this is more sensible than the government paying a higher gross rate of interest and then having the administrative cost of collecting the tax on those interest payments . |
| 13 | RTPA 1976 is the area to which most attention has been given in this section as this is likely to be the most relevant area for readers of this book . |
| 14 | By the same token try to avoid bright natural light for the first two to three days after the flight at times corresponding to 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time as this will tend to advance your body clock . |
| 15 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 16 | Any mortgages affecting the seller 's title will be revealed by the Charges Register , and will give rise to some such requisition as this : The registered charge ( entries nos on the Charges Register ) must be discharged on or before completion — or if the mortgagee is a building society , add : or the usual undertaking in that behalf handed over on completion . |
| 17 | The Edinburgh Review ( Oct. 1807 ) was openly abusive : ‘ If the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste , we are afraid it can not be insulted . ’ |
| 18 | It was such violence as this , and that perpetrated at Cable Street , which encouraged a Conservative-dominated National government to introduce a Public Order Act at the end of 1936 . |
| 19 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |
| 20 | Nothing in the whole of her life had ever given her so much pleasure as this . |
| 21 | You may think , for example , that this type does not exist and that it is inaccessible , not human , and that there is no such person as this , that it is utopian . |
| 22 | So , when acting in such a case , add to your additional enquiries made of the local authority , or better in a letter , some such enquiry as this : Is the Authority aware of any infilling or any geological stratum which might result in the instability of the foundations of any building erected on the site for which planning consent has been granted ? |
| 23 | If Hunt 's account is correct , his identification of the voice based upon years of listening to Joyce 's street-corner oratory , then the blackest irony of Lord Haw-Haw 's career was to die for such rubbish as this . |
| 24 | However , do try to avoid using too much movement as this will make the model ‘ twitchy ’ and cause excessive speed loss during manoeuvres . |
| 25 | I do n't remember this being as much air as this in here . |
| 26 | To conclude on such a vast subject as this is not easy but I would like to make the following points . |
| 27 | Tolkien had , probably , been developing some such thought as this for many years . |
| 28 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 29 | Simplest procedure is often to employ law agents for the purpose , writing to them some such letter as this : Messrs Scrivener & Tipstaff , Law Agents . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is probably more practical not to do things the standard way as this avoids what is likely to be severe over-kill for do-it-yourself applications . |