Example sentences of "as [adj] as [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 2 | A follow-up of the study made in 1951 by Sir Richard and his colleague Austin Bradford , has found smokers are three times as likely as non-smokers to die in middle age . |
| 3 | Even when they stood shoul der-to-shoulder , they looked as tense as people crammed in a lift , desperate to avoid any more contact than necessary . |
| 4 | You can omit the mortar form some of the joints in a brick or concrete block wall , but the effect is never as natural-looking as plants growing in stone . |
| 5 | On average cars sold in the US consume around 28.1 mpg , according to Environmental Protection Agency statistics , twice as efficient as cars sold in the 1970s but with little change in the past seven years . |
| 6 | Either way , it looks like women will be as eager as men to invest in a tux for Christmas . |