Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 2 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 3 | It certainly seems probable that addictive disease has a genetic element although the strength of that genetic component may vary considerably from one individual to another just as the intensity of short sight or other conditions that are genetically linked may vary in different individuals . |
| 4 | Kino 's international success is pretty doubtful however as the image is nothing new and the lyrics do n't really get through . |
| 5 | We aim to reduce this steadily as the recovery gets under way . |
| 6 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 7 | I do n't know if the Guiness is as good at the Imperial anymore as the pub has changed hands ! ! ! . |
| 8 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 9 | Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane . |
| 10 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 11 | Emilia 's face was white almost as the snow , but she was conscious and moaning now . |
| 12 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 13 | In the same way , the contrasting development of the Western European societies may also become comprehensible only as the outcome of distinctive political , religious or other forces working within a particular mode of production . |
| 14 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 15 | CERN 's technical record is such that few expect them to be insurmountable , though the original specifications for the magnets — two-thirds as powerful again as the SSC 's — may not be met . |
| 16 | Not as powerful yet as the Ping Tiao , nor as rich in its resources , yet significant enough to make him change his plans . |
| 17 | Strange really as the majority of games early in his career were in mid-field as deputy for E.Gray . |
| 18 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 19 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 20 | We launched our offensive just as the meeting was supposed to have started . |
| 21 | ‘ I weigh exactly the same now as the day I got married ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Forest have always been a side who finish better than they start and they will grow stronger again as the season progresses . |
| 23 | ( fl. 1260–1278 ) , cartographic patron , is known for certain only as the author or at least the patron of the late thirteenth-century world map preserved in Hereford Cathedral . |
| 24 | She reached the other side unscathed just as the man gave a grunt of triumph and twisted his victim 's hand behind her back , wrenching what looked like a purse out of her hand . |
| 25 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 26 | And he is noteworthy also as the composer of one of the only two known French Passion-settings of the sixteenth century : a Matthew Passion published by Attaingnant in 1534 in his tenth volume of motets , where it is followed by an anonymous John Passion . |