Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're also doing a lot of work on the component costings , trying to get the best deals possible in order to make the new combo as competitive as possible . |
| 2 | The Hispanized inhabitants of the lowlands viewed the unconverted pagans as little better than animals , whose lack of sophistication in dealing with a market economy allowed them to be exploited through debt bondage and coerced trade . |
| 3 | I have seen schools where children drew and made clay models , gathered and displayed local crafts collected , made and used local musical instruments — and schools as bare and empty as any prison cell . |
| 4 | The fruits of their labour now attract scholarship as much as , over the centuries , they have attracted dust . |
| 5 | I then put a cream silk backing on the mount , again to keep the overall effect as plain as possible , since I planned to design a fairly full flower combination in the oval aperture . |
| 6 | Mr Bergg said the Liberal Democrates would discourage the use of cars as much as possible . |
| 7 | The company can mend its ways and make cars as reliable as any of its competitors ' , but the reputation lingers on . |
| 8 | Within my CNAA experience , the success of these courses often related to the organisational structure of the degree programme as much as or rather than its academic integrity . |
| 9 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 10 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 11 | Disbelief vied with sideboards as extensive and useless as Chesil Bank for domination of his face . |
| 12 | In Florida on Oct. 20 two members of the rap music band " 2 Live Crew " were acquitted on obscenity charges for having performed songs from their album As Nasty as They Wan na Be , although a retailer had been convicted of selling the record after it had been declared obscene by a federal district judge on June 6 . |
| 13 | With an average age of 60 , customers choose his trips as much for the company of like-minded people as for the presence of an expert lecturer . |
| 14 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 15 | In the circumstances of the Occupation , Japan experienced a growing emphasis on material advancement and a wave of foreign influences as great as , if not greater than , anything in the Meiji period . |
| 16 | A player who weaves together the music of his Brazilian roots with influences as diverse as those of Harry ‘ Sweets ’ Edison and Miles Davis , he has now produced three albums of his own and established a distinctive voice in the straight-ahead idiom . |
| 17 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
| 18 | It tries to make evident , to say what in these complex relations remains unsaid and therefore unthought , in design practice as much as in design policy or social thinking . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 20 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 21 | In one study as many as 30 per cent of subjects exhibited a change in the side of the superior ear when re-tested within a period of one month ( Pizzamiglio , Pascalis and Vignati , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | In a recent study as many as 5% of subjects in a group of students and hospital employees were reported as losing bowel control , at least occasionally . |
| 23 | Of course , as the sidebands build up , they burn their own holes in the gain and refractive-index spectra , and it is not difficult to envisage the development of pulse shapes as complex as those of Fig. 7.6 , or , indeed , period-doubling and chaos in the pulse train : compare the discussion on passive resonators . |
| 24 | Sleek and stylish eternal bands of gold in shapes as timeless as your love |
| 25 | He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . |
| 26 | This woman has a talent as big as her shoulder muscles . |
| 27 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 28 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 29 | To keep the instrument as simple as possible , no voltage regulator has been incorporated to keep the d.c. supply to IC1 at a constant level . |
| 30 | Like its English cognate , imagination , however , it is rich in connotations and operates differently in the different conceptual frameworks of the different authors who use it ( authors as varied as Sartre , Bachelard , Barthes , Lacan , Castoriadis , Althusser ) . |