Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 2 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 3 | This is about as ‘ holey ’ as the lace can get because you need at least one needle adjacent to a selected needle to accept the transferred stitch . |
| 4 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 5 | These days , this is about as innovative as Hollywood gets , of course , but when the result is performed with the pace and panache of Russell Mulcahy 's Ricochet , maybe we should be grateful for small mercies . |
| 6 | There 's an old saying that there 's not such thing as a free lunch , but this is about as close as you can get . |
| 7 | Spend time defining this is in as colourful terms as possible . |
| 8 | We suggest that six is about as many as an observer can cope with . |
| 9 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 10 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 11 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 12 | Really intelligent frogs might wonder if there is something which prevents everything happening all at once , but that 's about as close as they can get to it . |
| 13 | Well Shanice , that 's about as good an idea as covering your arse in petrol and striking a match on your trousers , is n't it ? |
| 14 | That 's about as long as anyone gets . |
| 15 | Todd was 75th on Tour in driving distance , and that 's about as good as it gets . |
| 16 | " That 's about as stupid as saying you became a nurse because you get a kick out of emptying bedpans . |
| 17 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 18 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 19 | ‘ To me — a stranger — that 's about as clear as mud . |
| 20 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 21 | No no I I do n't do that i I I I get to within about ten feet , on the motorway , or twenty feet on the motorway and that 's about as close as I get . |
| 22 | I mean that 's , that 's about as entertaining as morris dancing |
| 23 | With a power rating of 300 watts the DSP 715 is about as small as it could realistically be , standing at 507mm high , 464mm wide and 362mm deep ; and at 77lbs in weight there 's no real difficulty in heaving it up on stage . |