Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 2 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 3 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 4 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |