Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was calm as she said to Sisters Monica and Aloysius . |
| 2 | The precise reasons for this apparently surprising appointment are not entirely clear as there appears to be no detailed documentation , but it is almost certain the initiative came from Harold Shearman , then District Chairman . |
| 3 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | We were always careful , but not as careful as we have to be now . |
| 5 | To discover whether Jews were as compassionate as they claimed to be he donned dark spectacles and stuck a notice to the rear window of his Buick : ‘ Careful ! |
| 6 | He says a rape in daylight involving an 11 year old as she walked to school is particularly serious . |
| 7 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 8 | She was a clever old — Well , let's just say she was cleverer than Maurice thought , though not as clever as she needed to be . |
| 9 | But like every other species , including the human , the bee is just as clever as it needs to be . |
| 10 | Very crudely we can base it on those elements which albeit often apparently antithetical or contradictory as they seem to be , have figured more or less constantly in discussions on " what design is " . |
| 11 | He grunted something unintelligible as he went to the security cupboard and slammed it shut , twisting his key in the lock . |
| 12 | It was getting dark as we got to the mountains of Burma . |
| 13 | Nellie looked very serious as she listened to her battered husband reliving his terrifying experience . |
| 14 | Yanto tried to be serious as he explained to the girls , which was n't easy with Billy 's skinny six foot frame shaking with mirth alongside him . |
| 15 | Normandin was a precious link to that other world that held John and I was more excited than nervous as we walked to his apartment near the Champs-Elysées . |
| 16 | No one could be as ignorant as you pretend to be . ’ |
| 17 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 18 | Rain felt sick as she listened to him . |
| 19 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 21 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 22 | But he was not as fast as he wanted to be . |
| 23 | It no longer seems as obvious as it used to that I can detach myself from my interactions with other things , observe them objectively , and arrive at facts about them wholly independent of my own reactions and decisions . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in her mind , she had visions of the Brownings rattling along in high good humour with all manner of beautiful vistas to right and left as they trotted to Arezzo and she could hear the conversation and Pen 's excited laughter . |
| 25 | Their absence cost ‘ Quins , who lost 25–14 , a victory which enhanced the Saints ’ title ambitious as they moved to third in the table , one point behind leaders Orrell . |
| 26 | Reflux of radiolabelled food and liquids can be measured using the technique of gamma scintigraph ; however , in this procedure the subjects are non-ambulant as they have to be continually monitored by standing in front of , or lying under , a gammacamera to detect the reflux event . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's better , ’ he spits , cocky as he deserves to be . |
| 28 | There are several obvious flowers , such as forget-me-nots , which can either be used as a spray or individually , and wild flowers are often useful as they tend to be small . |
| 29 | However , Pavlov , the famous behaviour scientist , listed four main groups of temperament types , which are useful as they relate to the animal 's response to learning and difficult circumstances . |
| 30 | This " supplying the means " infringement is useful as it applies to persons who supply products in kit form . |