Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hammer carved through his eyebrow and opened up a cut as deep as the frontal bone it cracked . |
| 2 | All the difficulties with ‘ wet white ’ were eliminated in Birmingham where there was an obscure ruling that bare legs were banned ( this remained in force as late as the 1950s ) , so when playing there they were given cotton tights but had to put a penny at the side , wrap a piece of string round it and the tights in order to hold them up . |
| 3 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 4 | The demand for shell suits in shiny crinkle and trilobal fabrics is waning and there will certainly be less of these versions around by next spring as far as the more fashion conscious wearer is concerned . |
| 5 | If these articles are to be useful then I think it is important that experienced practitioners , such as myself , should share a monumental cock-up as readily as the creative triumphs . |
| 6 | The last-named gave to the Hospitallers land in Stalisfield and Oare close to Faversham in Kent ; and a descendant of the same name held a manor at Ospring , which was known as Cade 's manor as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | First , and of most immediate relevance as far as the tax-protest movement is concerned , the past two decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the nature of political dissent which has increasingly assumed unconstitutional and , on occasions , violent forms . |
| 8 | Characteristic symptoms of monopolization can be seen in the reorganization of music hall as early as the 1880s ; corporate ownership , national and regional syndicates and chains , and restrictive licensing policies combined to freeze out the small entrepreneur ( see Bailey 1986a , passim ) . |
| 9 | Leaving this area of the house behind her , she ran down the passage as far as the open pantry door . |
| 10 | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban . |
| 11 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 12 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 13 | This makes no difference as far as the clinical use of the concept of syndrome is concerned : it remains true that if you see x it is a good idea to look for y and z ( since they are so likely to be present ) . |
| 14 | Six weeks later , CT scanning showed a bulky pancreas and a large pseudocyst of the lesser sac , with fluid tracked down on the left side of the retroperitoneum in the anterior compartment , anterior to Gerota 's fascia as far as the left iliac dossa . |
| 15 | Ipswich could have taken the lead as early as the second minute , when Steve Whitton picked up a poor clearance by Nigel Spink and cracked a drive just wide from 25 yards . |
| 16 | Giants , trailing by seven points after the first leg , took an aggregate lead as early as the fourth minute , but their game never flowed as missed shots and tired , sloppy defence allowed the Finns to stay in touch through their prolific three-point shooters . |
| 17 | Carr started to bleed slightly above his left eye as early as the second round , and he was twice in danger of being disqualified for using his head rather than his fists . |
| 18 | He edged from the room as swiftly as the impeding furniture would let him , through the door which led straight onto the staircase to the upper storey . |
| 19 | One ancient chronicler , Prokopie Kesarinski , refers to the Slavs and Antii crossing the Danube almost every year and attacking Illyria , Thrace and ‘ all the regions of the Ionian Gulf as far as the outlying districts of Constantinople ’ . |
| 20 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 21 | The Liberal Democrats may have wasted their money on the personality cult of Paddy Ashdown , but he is certainly not a negative factor as far as the forgiving women of Richmond are concerned . |
| 22 | In contrast , Western whaling nations needed the whale oil , although it is true that products from coastal whaling in Europe included meat as early as the 11th century . |
| 23 | But a dark undercurrent of hostility to sexuality and marriage became interwoven with the more benign attitudes towards the body and sexuality current as late as the second century . |
| 24 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 25 | Such was Vologsky 's mission today ; to overfly the very Sino-Soviet border at Alma-Ata then cruise along the Sin-kiang border as far as the Turfan Depression taking photographic , radar and infra-red records . |
| 26 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 27 | Today 's 940 Turbo fits that description as comfortably as the old 740 Turbo did . |
| 28 | The elegant studies undertaken by Bissell et al showed that none of the individual major matrix proteins used as a culture substratum would maintain hepatocyte function as effectively as the complete EHS gel complex . |
| 29 | The unthinking Christian may believe his faith as unthinkingly as the unthinking pagan . |
| 30 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |