Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you are still as slim as a reed — coltish , I believe your father used to say — you still have the same intriguing green eyes and those slanting eyebrows … ’ |
| 2 | To be locked inextricably in the overhang would have been nearly as disastrous as a dismasting . |
| 3 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
| 4 | I reckon that 'd be just as comfy as a proper bed . |
| 5 | Some of those classified as short-term unemployed may be intermittently unemployed and this may be just as demoralising as a long spell off work . |
| 6 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 7 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 8 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 9 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |
| 10 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 11 | There is no reason why a British robot should n't be just as productive as a Japanese one . |
| 12 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 'm sure we would be equally as good as a pair . ’ |
| 14 | Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary . |
| 15 | He ( 1975b , p. 225 ) cites the example of a distant and majestic mountain range to be fully as auratic as a hypothetically existing never-photographed masterpiece by Picasso . |
| 16 | For example , military pressure-group activity and other involvement in policy-making in liberal democracies may well seem less drastic than mounting a coup , but the implications of less overt forms of military intervention may sometimes be almost as great as a coup for the political process . |
| 17 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 18 | Fairly variable , and can be almost as pale as a Gyrfalcon . |
| 19 | Langston Hughes , the black poet Weill chose to write the lyrics for Street Scene , puts it pithily : Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon . |
| 20 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 21 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 22 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 23 | Telemine is only as large as a conventional torpedo — of which two British versions were sufficient to sink the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of more than 300 lives during the Falklands war last summer . |
| 24 | An oral contract for supplying a haulage service is just as enforceable as a written one for this purpose . |
| 25 | Once agreement is reached , the settlement is just as final as a judgment and , unless the agreement has been improperly procured , the issues of fact and law raised in the original claim may not be the subject of further litigation . |
| 26 | In the case of humans — to the physical factors or the environment , the ideological environment must be added , because a idea is just as valid as a kick in the teeth ; ideas are actually more important stimuli to the nervous system than are other types of stimuli ; ideas are , or induce , emotions that evoke energy in the nervous system . ’ |
| 27 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 28 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 29 | He 's good , he 's brilliant , and he 's probably as sound as a bell . |
| 30 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |