Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] as [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 2 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 3 | That voice is ever changing as we learn and develop our technique as a group . |
| 4 | Although the debate over whether the pre- or the postsynaptic changes are the most important is still raging as I write , it is likely to turn out , as is sometimes but not always the case in science , that both camps are more or less right . |
| 5 | Losing weight is more difficult as we get older , and it is infuriatingly easy for the weight to shoot back up again if dieting is relaxed . |
| 6 | it 's more difficult as you get older . |
| 7 | Boys are told — be John Wayne , be top of the class , score goals , do n't cry , make sure your pose is suitably heroic as you wipe someone 's face off your boots . ’ |
| 8 | The question we must now turn to is : can one of the subsidiary arguments for the justification of authority supplement the main argument and show that at least the authority of relatively just governments is as wide as they claim it to be ? |
| 9 | And one of the problems that these folk had , and one of the problems we all have is as long as we think we 're all right , then we 're all wrong . |
| 10 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This is as close as I want to get , Joe . ’ |
| 12 | Its unique Hydractive suspension provides genuinely superb comfort on most roads while the cabin is as roomy as they come . |
| 13 | If your sister is as virtuous as you say , then she has nothing to fear from my nephew . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps , he reflected , ‘ the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve . ’ |
| 15 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 16 | If it is as good as you say employers would be queuing up to get in ! |
| 17 | All in all , the winner of the Periodical Publishers Association Consumer Magazine of the Year Award had an anxious time , along with everyone else , in the first 11 months of the year , which is as far as we go . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a motel here , and this is as far as I want to drive today . ’ |
| 19 | That is as far as I want to go in drawing morals from Biomorph Land . |
| 20 | That is as far as I have got . ’ |
| 21 | In other words , if you do not receive a first grading , that is as far as you go although you get a written critique , so that you at least know why you did n't make the placings . |
| 22 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 24 | It has yet to fulfil its central claim which is as big as they come : ‘ Make no mistake , Christ will soon be back on earth . ’ |
| 25 | This man , Smith is as tough as they come . |
| 26 | A winner of two handicaps this season , Azhar is as tough as they come and should be able to hold his own in this stronger company . |
| 27 | The place is as busy as I 've ever seen it . ’ |
| 28 | But the nature of space , time , and gravity really is as remarkable as you have now learned . |
| 29 | She is as bigoted as they come , but the laughter is deafening . |
| 30 | The boss , Jerry Benefield , is as American as they come . |