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 | 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 . |
11 | He had remembered ( how could he have forgotten ? ) that the suburb had once boasted a poisoner almost as celebrated as Henry intended to be . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 " . |
19 | 45 killed as coach plunges off road |
20 | 21 killed as bus swerves into ravine |
21 | Five killed as train derails in Holland |
22 | The United Nations plans to withdraw its peace-keeping force from Sarajevo saying its task is impossible as violence worsens in Bosnia . |
23 | It was very dark as Newman drove along the road away from Walberswick on their way back to London . |
24 | In principle , of course , the conclusion of such a struggle need not be as straightforward as Dearlove implies in his own study . |
25 | FOOTBALL 'S new Premier League becomes more and more meaningless as millionaires vie with each other to buy the title . |
26 | ‘ And why ca n't you do gym today , Miss Isabella ? ’ said the teacher , her voice sweet and dangerous as honey spiked with arsenic . |
27 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
28 | Now that Windows has proved to the world that massive files are OK ( yah ! ) you 've as much chance of being able to save a decent sized word-processed document onto a 1.44MB floppy as Madonna has of becoming a nun . |
29 | Annie took off the brake and started to push the pram along the paved path , feeling decidedly uncomfortable as Billy walked beside her . |
30 | Further cost pools may disappear : set-up costs will become minimal as machines switch from product to product . |