Example sentences of "as [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasoning which led to the discovery of the antimalarial pyrimethamine was applied equally fruitfully 15 years later , to the drug trimethoprim , which was as specific for certain bacteria as pyrimethamine was for malaria parasites . |
| 2 | And a team had been sent in as normal for initial investigation , only to retreat almost immediately when their equipment had registered the fact that this was a Secondary Darkfall . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , then , you ought to feel just as sorry for silly people . |
| 4 | Expectations need to be appropriately set and as high for bilingual pupils as for all others . |
| 5 | Indeed , according to Marvin Wolfgang ( Braithwaite 1981b : 15 ) the chances of being a victim of homicide in the US are five times as high for white males inside prison than for those outside . |
| 6 | It is often the case that the definition of administrative regions within countries tends to reflect certain historical and institutional processes which , although they might have produced some degree of spatial cohesion , do not necessarily accord with what one might view as appropriate for economic scrutiny . |
| 7 | If only it were as simple for military plutonium . |
| 8 | No decisions have yet been made as to pricing , but O'Connell says ACT intended to make it as easy for existing customers as possible . |
| 9 | The Guynemers could trace courageous ancestors back to Charlemagne , but few heroes looked less the part than Georges , with his almost effeminate beauty and frail , spindly body that was three times rejected as unfit for military service . |
| 10 | Newcastle will fight just as hard for relegation-safety points as the Midlands team will for promotion . |
| 11 | The administration lag should not be as long for monetary policy since formal Parliamentary approval is not required . |
| 12 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 13 | To Lienhardt , oral Dinka language can be as effective for intellectual purposes as academic , written English : ‘ at almost every point the Dinka language allows for a wide range of moral and intellectual discriminations without leading into a seemingly autonomous world of abstractions . |
| 14 | The news may not be quite as good for female graduates either . |
| 15 | Chairs should look just as good for occasional seating as for dining . |
| 16 | Deciding where a stitch pattern will be placed on a garment is just as important for successful knitwear designing as deciding on the shape and colours to be used . |
| 17 | Language comes alive when our creative writings are intended for real readers , genuinely interested in what we have to say , responding in speech or writing to our failures and successes , and this is just as important for young children as for students in higher education . |
| 18 | This discovery did not prove to be particularly useful because the metabolite is a mycotoxin and mildly carcinogenic , illustrating that toxicological testing is just as important for natural products as it is for synthetic chemicals . |
| 19 | It is a source of cleavages which are as important for social action in general and voting behaviour in particular as production-derived social class . |
| 20 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ We , the club coaches , should be as accountable for Welsh success as international coaches are . |
| 22 | The ‘ adaptive ’ function is based on the proposition that what we call crime today includes forms of behaviour that will be crucially necessary to future society — Durkheim 's ( 1938 ) examples , are the ideas of Socrates and liberal philosophy which were once criminalised but which he sees as vital for contemporary society . |
| 23 | One writer claims that the use to which the most heavily read porn — Penthouse , Playboy , Men Only and Mayfair — is likely to be put , is as material for masturbatory fantasies ( Moye , 1985 , p. 53 ) . |
| 24 | Many Sinhalese viewed flogging as suitable for low-caste persons ; it was considered much more demeaning if administered to a man of high caste . |
| 25 | In France it was three or four times as expensive for French farmers to send merchandise by road as by rail . |
| 26 | This is as true for print-on-paper publishers who may deliver products in hard copy but invariably originate electronically , as it is for electronic information traders who both originate and deliver their products in electronic form . |
| 27 | The aims set out in the charter do not , in any case , represent the only form in which scientific progress can be achieved ; other conventions than ‘ mathematical plainness of language ’ could also be appealed to as significant for intellectual endeavour . |