Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 2 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 3 | Lord Mackay has treated claims that eligibility has substantially fallen as speculative . |
| 4 | The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . |
| 5 | The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . |
| 6 | The particular conception sees both processes as necessary features of a social representation . |