Example sentences of "as [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply . |
| 2 | Some 5% of user 's time , he claims , is spent in such tasks as backing up a network , and such factors end up costing as much as the original system itself . |
| 3 | It is these internally generated or endogenous components , lasting sometimes as long as a second after the triggering stimulus , which offer the most potential for investigating mental activities . |
| 4 | As long as a band can physically and economically do it , I would want to take their music to the people wherever they are . |
| 5 | In historical periods a loss factor of about 2 per cent per annum is known to have occurred ; compounded over a period of as long as a century , this will clearly drastically reduce the amount of coinage of year a available to the hoarder at the later date . |
| 6 | Pots and vases from the dawn of human history , armour for the ‘ small man ’ of the middle ages , swords as long as a medium-sized lamp-post , delicately inlaid flint-lock pistols and hunting rifles , rooms and rooms and rooms full of dust-motes dancing in shafts of sunlight , the smell of wax and leather , the long shelves of dead things . |
| 7 | It came unclouded to them from our fathers , and we will defend this land , as long as a drop of Indian blood warms the hearts of our men . |
| 8 | The group informally known as labyrinthodonts ( from their characteristic labyrinth-ridged teeth ) included some impressive animals almost as long as a man : perhaps the alligators of the time . |
| 9 | As long as a sensible training programme is followed , the child 's body will develop at a pace that will match his/her ambitions . |
| 10 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 11 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 12 | Hitachi , Toshiba , Mitsubishi , Fujitsu , Nippon Electric and Matsushita — the largest of the ‘ mech-tronics ’ groups began making-robots as long as a decade ago . |
| 13 | Unscrupulous bird exporters do n't care : they simply catch more birds , and as long as a few per cage survive , they are still in profit . |
| 14 | Sometimes , as long as a minute passes before the ‘ yes ’ button is depressed by beak or paw . |
| 15 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 16 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |
| 17 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 18 | As photographers know , a great deal can happen in periods of time as long as a hundredth of a second . |
| 19 | ‘ No thanks , ’ he replied , his face as long as a landslide , ‘ I once went to the House of Commons to see how the country was run . |
| 20 | In the case of the breeding tank , undergravel filters have been found to be more than adequate in most situations as long as a few basic concepts are followed . |
| 21 | Following the earth sciences revolution within the last couple of decades ( Hallam , 1973 ) it is natural to investigate what relationship , if any , exists between major biogeographic , radiation and extinction episodes and plate tectonics , which appear to have controlled first order events in the physical environment for at least as long as a diverse metazoan fauna became established in the Cambrian , nearly six hundred million years ago . |
| 22 | These properties of V4 cells only appear , however , as long as a large part of the scene is illuminated and the scene contains more than one coloured area , which Zeki achieves using a multicoloured stimulus array he calls a Mondrian . |
| 23 | It now seems that Britain 's upturn started as long as a year ago . |
| 24 | The new 600 Plus film packs for all cameras , £8.99 for a pack of 10 , include a battery to power all the camera 's functions — so as long as a film is loaded , the camera has power . |
| 25 | Sheepskin or even fake fur will work as long as a tight seal is made between the piston and the walls of the chamber . |
| 26 | It was , after all , as long as a cow . |
| 27 | As long as a Unionist MP had to pay his election expenses , or an association chairman to " treat " the party workers , or a constituency delegate to pay his own expenses to a midweek conference , then few working men would ever be selected for any of these posts . |
| 28 | By the central pole stood a great oaken chest , three feet high and as long as a man . |
| 29 | As a general rule , though , it is easier to cope with a dry site than a wet one : as long as a water supply is available , a dry site can be moistened to highlight the differences in soil colour and texture . |
| 30 | This , while nowhere near as long as a hummingbird 's tongue , is quite long enough from this position to burgle the nectaries . |