Example sentences of "to the [noun] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But theoretically , the significance was still greater : the traditional Western bar on the ordination of the married had always applied to the diaconate as much as to the priesthood ( and for the same initial reason : marriage involving the practice of sex was regarded as causing pollution ) . |
| 2 | Active methods of treatment for venous ulcers do work , but the ‘ Hawthorn ’ effect must be remembered , in that part of any improvement is due to the change as much as the method , or ‘ a change is a s good as a rest ’ . |
| 3 | The duty of the doctor in such a circumstance is , stated generally , to use all appropriate medical skills to make the time remaining to the patient as comfortable as possible . |
| 4 | I skipped back to the tavern as merry as a schoolboy intent on his holiday . |
| 5 | ‘ He speaks to the others as little as possible . |
| 6 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 7 | By the time the meal was finished we were all in our cups but Waldegrave had staggered to the meal as drunk as any bishop . |
| 8 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
| 9 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 10 | She saw Fand drop her spear and sink to the ground as light as a feather , eyes closed and pale hair streaming . |
| 11 | But it is clear that the data collected in close investigations of live speech communities are much richer than the data preserved from early language states , and they are observable in a larger number of dimensions and at a much finer level of detail ; thus , the patterns revealed in systematic investigations of live communities appear to the observer as much more variable and multidimensional than historical patterns ( as these are usually reported ) . |