Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Even Lloyd George , whose origins were as lowly as Law 's had been , could not stoop to so humble a style , and only Stanley Baldwin ( who drew much of his inspiration from Law ) was able to do so successfully . |
| 5 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 6 | The hold was very dark , but not quite as dark as Willis had expected . |
| 7 | More precisely , in linguistic terms , it has been suggested that it is not as straightforward as Lyons implies to attribute the possibility of ‘ neutrality ’ to English grammar ; some aspects , such as pronoun usage , are more context-dependent than he allows . |
| 8 | She had to breathe hard between each word , and her face was as white as Branwell 's had been . |
| 9 | One state Department cable to the US ambassador in Teheran asked him to remind the Shah the reforms were necessary " because it is generally agreed that without some reforms Iran as likely as Khrushchev predicted to fall to Soviets like ripe plum " |
| 10 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 11 | He was drafted into the army in 1942 , where he discovered that even in uniform everyone was not as equal as God had intended . |
| 12 | Robert Sheldrake 's character could surely not be as black as Dawn had painted . |
| 13 | The interview with Georg , too , while unpleasant , had n't been as terrible as Suzi had feared . |
| 14 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 15 | Why should he when he shared his life with a girl who , with clouds of dark hair , olive skin and a slender figure , was just as stunning as Simon had claimed ? |
| 16 | Dermot sounded almost as angry as Kelly had felt when she 'd heard the news . |
| 17 | However , before the visit ended the husband and wife both admitted to being charmed with Annabel 's friend , and that they could understand their daughter 's feelings towards her , for the girl was not only as beautiful as Annabel had described her , but also she had the most pleasing and cultured voice . |
| 18 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 19 | Lights were visible now in sundry windows , but that was as far as reactions seemed to go . |
| 20 | Ah erm well , Chairman , I I think that this is something that 's going to cut , as far as Hambledon 's got concerns , is going to come up in the erm in the next debate , certainly , erm , the erm , the issue of erm whether policy should be expressed in terms of principle and criteria , or erm area and a district as being a dilemma erm to Hambledon , erm , it feels it 's erm erm not being able to support the policy as defined , because ultimately the Council would object to a new settlement in Hambledon . |
| 21 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 22 | But she was just as desperate , as grief-stricken as Jinny had imagined . |
| 23 | Their task was not as difficult as Corbett had thought . |
| 24 | An enmity that goes back to the battle of Manzikert in the wilds of Anatolia 922 years ago will not vanish just because something as ephemeral as communism has gone away . |
| 25 | It was as close as Jane dared go to a direct suggestion of murder , though she could not resist one more enticement . |
| 26 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 27 | It was as sharp as Tim 's had been when Oliver accused him of stealing . |
| 28 | Sitting in front of the looking glass , making up her face , she hoped that Anthony was all right and not quite as heartbroken as Julia seemed to think he was . |
| 29 | Although as far as can be established they were not as licentious as myth has claimed , their presence increased the risk of drunkenness and brawling . |
| 30 | Would Mother Clare be as bad as Eve had said ? |