Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was most unusual in British politics , as much for its measured orderliness as for its warmth . |
| 2 | Apply this tape as for pencil pleat , bearing in mind the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 3 | Seen in this light , restoration is a kind of patching up of iconographical clothing , as valid for the grand vestments of the Old Masters as for the everyday wear of modern art . |
| 4 | To equip the definitions in his Dictionary , one third or so of nearly a hundred and twenty thousand quotations come from Shakespeare — many , it seems , chosen as much for their philosophical or moral point as for their usage value . |
| 5 | The principal objective of the budget was to hold the public deficit for 1990 at more or less the same level in absolute terms as for 1989 , thereby reducing it from 11 per cent to 10.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 6 | Each person will recover at his or her own pace , with the same individual variation as for any other illness , but generally the next week is spent on Step 2 . |
| 7 | Some kind of social democracy in Russia , erm on the other hand in central Asia as for example , I think it 's quite likely that former communists , although they may disavow their former allegiance , will in practice take over as national communist parties and continue to run their economies , well there will be private economies but with a large state sector and run on a pretty tight reign . |
| 8 | Murphy ( 1982 ) reviewed 100 cases and concluded that depression among older people had similar causes as for younger people and was focused upon major life events such as bereavement . |
| 9 | Kessler and McLeod also found plausible evidence in three studies that the buffering effects of emotional support might be at least as important in circumstances of chronic strain as for people facing the acute stress of major events . |
| 10 | He would now dry it in natron , before packing the cavities he had made with linen treated with myrrh and cassia ; the nostrils and eyes plugged with linen soaked in resin , and the hair dressed with as much care as for attendance at a royal wedding . |
| 11 | For example , the question of whether accounting is or should be the same for a public limited company as for a private company has never unduly concerned accounting theorists . |
| 12 | The heading should be planned in a similar way as for pinch pleats . |
| 13 | After devastating some local villages , perhaps as much to gain additional supplies as for any military purpose , the Norman forces had to prepare for battle with a formidable Saxon army . |
| 14 | I very much hope that we will soon move forward to see permanence units which employ staff equally for their ability to work at getting a child back with natural families as for their skills in working with substitute new families . |
| 15 | If we could say ‘ I know ’ only when we could also say exhaustively how it is that we know , it would create just as much a problem for the sophisticated philosopher as for those of us who are simpler . |
| 16 | The area is noted as much for its natural beauty as for its industrial history — it was here , in the lush valleys of Derbyshire that the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution were felt and today working mills and factory shops testify to this heritage . |
| 17 | There are suggested menus for each day as for the previous weeks , with the key facts , and daily charts to complete . |
| 18 | Frequently in this period the representation of the man — man — woman triangle suggests that the desire which bonds men over women is as erotically invested for the men in relation to each other as for each of them in relation to the women . |
| 19 | Such being the direct evidence for contacts between Greeks and Jews before the time of Alexander , we ask the obvious question : what did Greeks and Jews make of these various opportunities for meeting and knowing each other As for the Greeks , the answer is simple . |
| 20 | He impatiently waved the face away ; he wanted no useless , interfering spectators , and the impatience was as much for his own continued failure as for the uncaring curiosity of the woman who had looked in — life was cheap in the Buildings . |
| 21 | And it is not just the movement that is confused ; the financial status of the housewife is as much of a poser for those who would confirm women 's traditional role as for those who would change it . |
| 22 | Expectations need to be appropriately set and as high for bilingual pupils as for all others . |
| 23 | Acid soluble soils : are inorganic soils from an inert source as for example water hardness salts , rust and metallic stains from metal oxidisation as well as uric acid salts ( toilet stains ) . |
| 24 | Drag ( but not lift ) then increases with length , so that aerodynamic costs rise , albeit at the same low rate as for pintails . |
| 25 | And banks now provide almost as much liquidity for private securities as for public ones . |
| 26 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 29 | Does an engineer who decides matters of planning regulations , architectural design and quantification of damages have the same liability for his decisions on those matters as for his decisions on engineering matters , and , if so , on what basis ? |
| 30 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |