Example sentences of "and [noun] is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the highly civilised heroes of Yourcenar 's history and fiction is as sympathetically drawn as these two aristocrats who were not allowed to grow . |
| 2 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |
| 3 | And Biddy is as hard-working as ever . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a statement of defiance to say the arrests have made absolutely no difference to them and Warrington is as vulnerable as it ever was , ’ he told Sky News . |
| 5 | As a sudden mutation there is no reason whatever why it should not crop up anywhere , and the small island between Ireland and England is as likely a place for it as anywhere else . |
| 6 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 7 | For me , nothing in War and Peace is as valuable as the boat-cutting-out expeditions of Marryat and for me he remains the greatest of English novelists . |
| 8 | A surge of participation in evening classes and sports is as much about a search for companionship as mental and physical fitness . |
| 9 | The whole kit and kaboodle is as tense as unravelled knitting and there is a completely unbelievable ‘ surprise ’ ending tacked onto the end as an obvious afterthought . |
| 10 | TERRY AND JULIAN is as ever followed by PAUL MERTON Don Cherry is the focus of BIRDLAND tonight and there 's Nic Roeg 's BAD TIMING with , erm , Art Garfunkel . |
| 11 | The shapely outline of back loin and quarters is as noticeable as the deep carcase . |
| 12 | For , besides the materialist qualities , the spiritual quality of commitment and feeling is as present between homosexual as between heterosexual partners . |
| 13 | And Iran is as unpopular in the West as it has ever been . |
| 14 | John Leonard of Ordnance Survey said ‘ Learning to use a map and compass is as essential to children as learning to swim . |
| 15 | Sue Larcombe of the RA welcomed the move and says ‘ Learning to use a map and compass is as essential as learning to swim ’ . |
| 16 | ( And failure to encourage infants to grow up and experience their own separateness and uniqueness is as much a betrayal of the concept of self as is the abandonment of support and pleasure in their developing maturity . ) |
| 17 | The ability of a husband to support his wife and children is as important a component of his honour as his control of his wife 's sexuality . |
| 18 | The wide choice of theatres , cinemas , museums , art galleries , leisure centres and parks is as exciting and interesting as one would expect in the province 's leading city . |
| 19 | The wide choice of theatres , cinemas , museums , art galleries , leisure centres and parks is as exciting and interesting as one would expect in the province 's leading city . |
| 20 | The healing of the wounds between women and men is as important as the healing of the wounds between churches . |
| 21 | Therefore the genre of Troilus and Cressida is as inconstant as the characters it describes . |
| 22 | The emptiness of life reduced to mere sex and death is as awful on the island as in the flat . |
| 23 | Of natural selection Butler later wrote : ‘ To state this doctrine is to arouse instinctive loathing ; it is my fortunate task to maintain that such a nightmare of waste and death is as baseless as it is repulsive . ’ |
| 24 | The eccentricity of the circus , peepshow , and brothel is as embarrassing to ( the Culture Industry ) as that of Schoenberg or Karl Kraus . |