Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 2 | Drama makes an important contribution towards realising the overall aims of English as set out in chapter 2 . |
| 3 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 4 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |
| 5 | The clergy were not so much wicked or immodest as bound up too closely in the social hierarchy to have much direct contact with their parishioners . |
| 6 | The Naked Lunch does not end so much as tail off entropically into verbal fragments . |
| 7 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 8 | A gift shop , a snack bar and a petrol station is not exactly a model , thriving Highland community , and the disquieting feeling that these places now exist only to empty the contents of your wallet if you so much as slow down is not a pleasant one . |
| 9 | Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up . |
| 10 | It is mentioned here because encounters with such forms of suffering may distress practitioners so much as to block off their own capacity to deal sensitively and effectively with the people concerned . |
| 11 | Isambard had not so much as looked round . |
| 12 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 13 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 14 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 15 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 17 | I find comparisons at the moment impossible to contemplate as this reading is so shattering as to rule out any other . |
| 18 | Leo was probably fun to be with , a great companion , a good friend , she thought , then gave a wry chagrined smile as he turned towards her as though he 'd been aware of her presence all along — and she might have known he would n't do anything so obliging as to walk off . |
| 19 | Often it will be found that a text starts with the B signatures , the preliminaries rarely being so obliging as to add up to a complete signature . |
| 20 | Years ago , in a Sky at Night television programme , I referred to these three as making up the ‘ Summer Triangle ’ , and nowadays everyone seems to use the term , though it is completely unofficial and in any case does not apply to the southern hemisphere , where June is midwinter . |
| 21 | Errors of principle — A purchase treated as a sale ; a receipt treated as a payment ; returns in treated as returns out ; an asset treated as an expense . |
| 22 | And the Borough Council considers that the need for the new roads has been fully justified as set out in the County Council 's assessment . |
| 23 | And , as any football-mad kid knows , there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season 's kit . |
| 24 | This latter character may not be particularly useful as pointed out by Clark ( 1970 ) . |
| 25 | Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] . |
| 26 | In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it . |
| 27 | Rémy of Pertuis had as good as made up his mind to leave that day , but the arrival of the earl of Leicester caused him to think again , and countermand his orders to Bénezet and Daalny to begin packing . |
| 28 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 29 | Worse still , by the end of May there were indications that for the first time German losses might be exceeding those of the French ; within a week one completely new brigade had been as good as wiped out . |
| 30 | He gets a lot of noes that way , but a remarkable number of yesses , and when he did n't register an instant negative from me , I was as good as signed up . |