Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social interviews , sometimes known as ‘ trial by sherry ’ , are theoretically relaxed occasions , like a drinks party or dinner , but the atmosphere tends to become rather strained as one half of the party sizes up and assesses the other half . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the swim which is still the most exciting as everything depends on the tide . |
| 3 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 4 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 5 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 6 | To take just two other segments , Hayzen says that the ‘ Awaken ’ segment is not so favoured as one might at first think , because rivals may chip away at one 's profits by undercutting product prices . |
| 7 | Matthew Arnold refers to Horace 's " allusive and compressed manner " ( In his essay " On translating Homer " ; actually with reference to in Odes , iv , ) Gladstone ( 1894 : v ) mentions " the necessity of compression " as the particular object of his own translations — which are in places as uncompressed and haplessly spongy as anyone else 's . |
| 8 | Anyway , the premiums become progressively expensive as one grows older . |
| 9 | The Outer Kingdoms are more worldly as one would expect from nations that have to deal with marauding Norse and Dark Elf raiders . |
| 10 | Protected Party Party Relying On Clause Class of Goods Non-consumer Business Commercial Business Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Non-consumer Non-consumer Consumer/Commercial Business Business Consumer/Commercial Prima facie , it would appear that a court would be likely to find exclusions more reasonable as one proceeds down the matrix , and exclusions relating to consumer goods more reasonable than those relating to commercial goods . |
| 11 | Reversion to order can occur ; systems do not necessarily get progressively more disordered as one goes further beyond a first instability . |
| 12 | He is as honestly confused as everybody else by a South African township riot . |
| 13 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 14 | Time magazine , as always reflecting the indoctrines of the Luce family and assuming the mantle of the responsible voice of America , recorded that : ‘ it was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski 's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of human character … and the most likely theory is that the slayings were related to narcotics . ’ |
| 15 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 16 | I am certainly as guilty as everyone else . |
| 17 | Trevor Francis was as guilty as anyone , but after 26 minutes the Rangers player-manager provided a beautifully weighted cross which Simon Barker headed just wide . |
| 18 | And yet I 've been as guilty as anybody else in saying , Oh they wo n't wan na come in this medical practice booklet what will they gain from it ? |
| 19 | Then five minutes afterwards she 's been as normal as anyone — I suppose it 's a disease . |
| 20 | A society with n independent currencies should be times as stable as one with a single currency . |
| 21 | Maybe not on a white charger , as the old man had hoped , but in circumstances as strange as anything his grandfather had encountered . |
| 22 | We also found that some of their drilling equipment is as advanced as anything we are using ’ . |
| 23 | Two years after that last fight , Ali seemed as mystified as everyone else as to why he had n't ended his career earlier . |
| 24 | Old Kewlany and his mate , as mystified as anyone , were set to work elsewhere for the time being . |
| 25 | The business problem in that area has always been to ensure that we provide the maximum amount of service with our products , and that our production costs are as low as anybody else 's . |
| 26 | Sri Lanka , like India , was subject to periodic increases in the price of grain , but the link between crime and economic hardship was not as strong as one would expect from the Indian evidence . |
| 27 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 28 | If the workhouse was as overcrowded as everyone said , then surely they 'd be only too pleased to get one inmate off their hands ? |
| 29 | A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine . |
| 30 | Today more than ever the phrase " as old as one feels " is no mere consolatory cliche . ) |