Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnett grabbed the crucial wickets of dogged nightwatchman Mike Garnham and England captain Graham Gooch in a morning spell of 9–5–10–2 as Essex slipped from 116 for one to 169 for four in reply to Lancashire 's 321 . |
| 2 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 3 | Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon . |
| 4 | The dividend cover is not wonderful but it 's perfectly adequaly adequate as Michael said at the beginning . |
| 5 | Yet the frequency of occurrence need not be as high as 90% to qualify as a regularity . |
| 6 | With sales of vegetarian products estimated at a minimum of £335m in 1990 by Marketing Strategies for Industry ( and possibly as high as £1bn according to definitions ) , it is potentially a highly lucrative market to tap into , particularly when , according to Juliet Gellatley , campaigns director for the Vegetarian Society , the number of non-meat eaters rose by 94% between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 7 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 8 | Inserting equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) for I and V into equation ( 9.75 ) establishes that Hence where from equation ( 9.77 ) For a transmission line of infinite length , and are zero in equations ( 9.78 ) and ( 9.79 ) respectively because it is physically impossible for I or V to be infinite as x goes to infinity . |
| 9 | She reached for the .38 jammed into her waistband , trying to pull it free as Stark grabbed for her throat . |
| 10 | I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … , " . |
| 11 | They should become more demanding as students progress through an area of study and increasingly test skills such as application , evaluation , use of judgement , decision making and problem solving . |
| 12 | He had remembered ( how could he have forgotten ? ) that the suburb had once boasted a poisoner almost as celebrated as Henry intended to be . |
| 13 | Partly for this reason and partly because of slight local demand for living accommodation so markedly individualistic as apartments created in former textile factories ( which may not be entirely free from unpleasant associations ) , only one or two of the smaller , older and picturesquely situated textile mills have , to date , been converted into dwellings . |
| 14 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 15 | The emphasis in the first two books is on oral/aural work with reading and writing becoming more central as students develop towards intermediate level in Destinations . |
| 16 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 17 | A protest rally by around 3,000 people on the evening on Feb. 11 became violent as protesters clashed with militia units , overturned buses and cars , and looted shops . |
| 18 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 19 | It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities . |
| 20 | Sums of up to US$30,000 for individuals and US$60,000 for families would be payable as damages resulting from " mental pain or anguish " . |
| 21 | 45 killed as coach plunges off road |
| 22 | 21 killed as bus swerves into ravine |
| 23 | Five killed as train derails in Holland |
| 24 | The United Nations plans to withdraw its peace-keeping force from Sarajevo saying its task is impossible as violence worsens in Bosnia . |
| 25 | I would certainly I would certainly hope that men would become much less erm nervous and ashamed about expressing emotion erm and I would certainly hope that erm men learn as much as women do about erm how to look after children and how to bring them up , and I think there 's some evidence that that actually is happening . |
| 26 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 27 | The following table gives about as much as SHHD had in the way of detailed information about registered nursing homes . |
| 28 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 29 | He had a parcel under his arm , and much as Mum pleaded with him he would n't stay . |
| 30 | I have found that as much as £2.50 needs to be spent just to obtain the outlook for the next day . |