Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [pers pn] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 2 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 3 | Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are almost as funny as they are in The Mary Whitehouse Experience , the show that earnt them this sitcom . |
| 4 | All such sources of conflict are familiar to those in the public sector as much as they are to those in the private . |
| 5 | I doubt if anyone in the four divisions is entertaining as much as we are at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment . |
| 7 | If we if they were n't as quick as you are like that working that out what you could try is say well I 've given them one each there 's the four people one two three four right you 've all got a whole one so you can start eating that while I sort out how I 'm gon na share this out . |
| 8 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 9 | Perhaps the main consequences of the lack of high intelligence in animals is that they are not as good as we are at fooling themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 11 | If it did n't our culture would change , as we would n't have the energy and drive to be as busy as we are without coffee and alcohol . ’ |
| 12 | If you are moving along in an ambulance you are not as safe as you are in the static , intensive care environment of an intensive care unit . ’ |
| 13 | This idea of balance is just as important if you are on a reducing diet . |
| 14 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 15 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 16 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 17 | Of course , er we er , the provisos must be er that the er , that the prices or the costs at the Nuffield remain as competitive as they are at the moment , and of course , that we get the same very high quality that we er , that we already have . |
| 18 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |