Example sentences of "[conj] as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be as utilitarian as the rigid polyurethane foam commonly used in the reinforcement of GRP bodyshells , or as elegant as the aluminium or Nomex honeycombs employed in pukka aerospace sandwich materials ( as seen recently through holes in the wings of Tornado jets involved in the Gulf conflict ) . |
| 2 | Do n't expect , however , to find this city as exciting as Berlin , as trendy as Hamburg , or as elegant as Munich . |
| 3 | Sir Richard and Lady Isabella now know that perhaps we are not as stupid or as feckless as sometimes we may appear . |
| 4 | But if women learn their social orientation , it may not be as universal or as unchanging as these female-associated methods suggest . |
| 5 | I 'd have to be incredibly stupid , or as shallow as he is . |
| 6 | We would like you to join us for dinner , meet our friends , enjoy a glass of wine or two over something as simple as a plate of pasta , or as extravagant as a six course meal . |
| 7 | Perhaps not as comfortable or as durable as it could be , but good value for money , nonetheless . |
| 8 | There 's nothing on Lovesexy as supersaturated as ‘ Adore ’ , as out of kilter as ‘ Ballad of Dorothy Parker ’ or as vacant and cretinizingly compulsive as ‘ Hot Thing ’ . |
| 9 | You can be as active or as lazy as you wish ; the important thing is that it is something you want to do rather than something you feel you should do ; |
| 10 | It can be as large or as small as you want it — a stately-home herb garden with grand borders , " knotted " beds , paving , pergolas and a pool with goldfish ( or carp , to be in keeping with the true tradition of the old monastery herb garden ) . |
| 11 | A window can be the same size as the screen or as small as a single icon . |
| 12 | Therein is part of the magic of cinema : to implant a visual image so strong that somewhere in the psyche the cinematic illusion becomes as real or as powerful as any actual experience . |
| 13 | No doubt from then on my route was n't as straight or as accurate as earlier , but at least I was moving . |
| 14 | Fig 45 Aim to position the aircraft on , or as close as possible to , the outbound track prior to crossing the facility outbound . |
| 15 | But it is as dashing or as docile as you want , giving a ride that is firm but supple . |
| 16 | They would stress the doctrinal fluidity within some , if not all , Protestant movements and the absence of a mechanism of censorship as centralized or as effective as that supervised by the Holy Office in Rome . |
| 17 | Amid the peace and comfort of your surroundings , you can enjoy healthy and delicious food , natural therapies and treatments , and any exercise can be as rigorous or as gentle as you wish . |
| 18 | But if Greek literacy is not , in fact , as easy or as unambiguous as Goody sometimes claims , then its ‘ implications ’ may not be so important as those claims assert . |
| 19 | Table 6.9 Sterling commercial paper The development of the market has not been as rapid or as extensive as in many other European countries . |
| 20 | Gruff and grumpy , sweet and saintly , or as changeable as the British weather , no two dads are alike . |
| 21 | I confess I have never met any woman as shrewish or as critical as you ! ’ |
| 22 | Or As far as you 're aware ? |
| 23 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 24 | He was being serious , or as serious as he knows how . |
| 25 | Over much of the country , therefore , the local researcher should expect to find only slight traces of settlement remains , not as extensive or as impressive as those usually published . |
| 26 | It is available in 325 gram bags or as 10 or 20 kilogram bales . |
| 27 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 28 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 29 | Some undertake this role at a working level by assisting and challenging the business units when they submit their plans ; for example , by questioning why the business units are not competing in a certain way or as much as they should . |
| 30 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |