Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously we regard this as something we would not have wished to do . |
| 2 | This latter is quite an important point , because although it may not be immediately obvious , a deposit which consists only of large particles can be just as well-sorted as one which consists only of small ones . |
| 3 | Look when you get as old as me you 'll be I 'll be glad to have a head like you . |
| 4 | This was life : going to bet with a man twice as old as yourself who was married to someone who would n't divorce him . |
| 5 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 6 | What the team decided not to change is as interesting as what it decided needed fixing . |
| 7 | Although he 's only seventeen Chris is committed to art in one form or another as something he intends to stick with for life . |
| 8 | The figures also suggest that if you hold a qualification , you are half as likely to be unemployed as someone who has none . ’ |
| 9 | An interpretation which sees postmodernist organization as simply another form of totalitarianism may just as well turn out to be appropriate as one which celebrates its pluralism . |
| 10 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 11 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 12 | But he did n't do quite as much as me I do n't think like . |
| 13 | The ways in which we say things convey as much as what we say . |
| 14 | Orange flavours that 's about as much as what we 'd ever get in here ! |
| 15 | What the Government buy matters as much as what they spend . |
| 16 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 17 | I have suggested that there is an important connection between the linguistic and the metalinguistic , since the important thing about sex difference is not what it is so much as what it is made to mean . |
| 18 | It mattered to her how something looked as much as what it contained . |
| 19 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 20 | One of the great things about drama school is what you learn to reject as much as what you actually learn . |
| 21 | suggesting common objectives in an even-handed way , ie that favour what they want to achieve at least as much as what you want to achieve . |
| 22 | No not not mu much as what you can call vandalism , you know people spraying paint on the tinned up windows and that . |
| 23 | I was n't concentrating as much as what I could do , but I got over it really … |
| 24 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 25 | Alright I 'll get through it I wo n't be running about as much as what I usually do . |
| 26 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 27 | It was Colborne as much as anyone who took Diana under his wing in the early days . |
| 28 | ‘ You love England as much as anyone I know . ’ |
| 29 | I think as much as anything he was testing our mood on whether or not , whether we were going to be helpful or . |
| 30 | As much as anything it represents the conviction which took the communist leadership of a proto-state into and through two cataclysmic conflicts with a tenacity and disregard of human life that has characterized religious , revolutionary and patriotic wars . |