Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1930s critics so variously and widely influential as Allen Tate , Yvor Winters and F. R. Leavis each in his own way considered Pound 's criticism , or some of it , and then instructed their readers that that criticism could safely be ignored . |
| 2 | Secure it at the bottom , the angle becoming more gradual and eventually flat as it reaches the base . |
| 3 | The confrontations are alive — and most definitely kicking — and are as combative , irritable and downright ugly as ever . |
| 4 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 5 | LEAs will probably be reluctant to use this power and rather uncertain as to the kinds of circumstances when it should be exercised . |
| 6 | She looked up , her blue eyes wide and rather vulnerable as she smiled faintly . |
| 7 | Something I 've always wanted to do and rather daunting as everyone knows the original movies and shows and the people who sang and danced in them . |
| 8 | Outside it had turned dark and rather cold as Ranulf trotted along , following the curtain wall to the porter 's lodge near the gate . |
| 9 | That problem — almost the reverse one — is why individual organisms exist at all , especially in a form so large and coherently purposeful as to mislead biologists into turning the truth upside down . |
| 10 | Yet I offer to you as much as I possess , and so much as old age has left me , with the utmost satisfaction , as being at least a testimony to the instruction and delight that I have received from your marvellous invention . |
| 11 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 12 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 13 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |
| 14 | A short way further on is the handsome village of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , most fetchingly set amidst the hills and so long-drawn-out as to be really two villages , with the river in between them . |
| 15 | And we ourselves will instinctively be perceived as ‘ anti-Christian ’ , as writers engaged in a fully fledged crusade which pits us , as militant adversaries , against the ecclesiastical establishment — as if we were personally bent on toppling the edifice of Christendom ( and so naive as to think such a feat possible ) . |
| 16 | Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now . |
| 17 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |
| 18 | The notion of art upon which the Report draws is at once so general as to be almost unspecifiable , and so pragmatic as to offer a highly potent means of making practical and discursive links between English and education : " The writing of English is essentially an art , and the effect of English literature in education is the effect of an art upon the development of human character " . |
| 19 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 20 | Once you have done that it makes sense , again , either to make the household as credible ( average , ordinary , pleasant ? ) as possible or , for the sake of effect , as zany , improbable , and perhaps Addams-like as you can . |
| 21 | Boswell says , ‘ The scene was as sequestered and agreeably wild as could be desired , and for a time engrossed all our attention . ’ |
| 22 | Three of the total 12 with these symptoms assessed them as moderately disturbing and only one as severe . |
| 23 | He learned , too , how the soil became damper and less resonant as both species gradually abdicated before the tattered white willows which marched thirstily alongside the streams that tumbled towards the river . |
| 24 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 25 | But be warned : trade flows are less and less useful as indicators of economic performance |
| 26 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 27 | In Europe , we want to create circumstances in which nuclear deterrence becomes less and less significant as the principles of common security are accepted and applied . |
| 28 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 29 | The amendment to the MacMahon Act might have saved Britain money and time in establishing her nuclear deterrent , but , as each year passed , the deterrent would become less and less independent as Britain 's own research establishments were bypassed , and more and more of its sub-equipments and components came from America . |
| 30 | Thus it was argued that the non-market methods of control were discriminatory , limited in their application , and somewhat clumsy as instruments , producing distortions and inequities within the financial system . |