Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 3 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 4 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 5 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 6 | So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’ |
| 7 | This tends to make most people somewhat lazy as they take one another for granted . |
| 8 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
| 9 | Cos I was more or less going as she come in . |
| 10 | not so easy as you think getting jobs |
| 11 | So , she thought , you are not so simple as you look . |
| 12 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 13 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 14 | Do you suppose I run a rooming house , or can it be you are not so innocent as you appear ? |
| 15 | ‘ Or , at least it is n't so long as we avoid that bit of road . ’ |
| 16 | At least the rain keeps the mosquitoes away , and the flashes from the guns lighting up the sky appear somewhat comforting as I doze off , conscious of the rain dripping on to my boots . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't keep it so hot as they keep theirs . |
| 18 | They 're less impressive as they smoulder , marmalade-like , over a pair of kohl-black eyebrows . |
| 19 | ‘ So I do n't think he found me quite so ridiculous as you make out , ’ concluded Viola , with an angry smirk of triumph . |
| 20 | Rule four : be as personally abusive as you like . |
| 21 | There are organic changes to the heart , and it becomes less efficient as we get older ; but lack of exercise causes more deterioration than simple ageing . |
| 22 | The body does become less efficient as we grow older , and it 's a comfort to have someone by our side who recognises this . |
| 23 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 24 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 25 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 26 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 27 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 28 | An and it 's what makes me so cross as I walk past that blinking school every day and you think my kid should be over there ! |
| 29 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 30 | Their need for thick-lensed ‘ John Lennon ’ spectacles implies they are physically imperfect as they slouch or lean against props ; for these lazy , untidy creatures have techniques of the body which reveal major structuring principles of police thinking . |