Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I also see that we 're about as alike as chalk and cheese , because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group . |
| 2 | I 'm about as hard as a tub of lard , tho some people are fooled by my fascist green bomber jacket … |
| 3 | Secure placements , once made , should only be for so long as is necessary and unavoidable . |
| 4 | Peter:I think he will be here in 12 mths time , I Do n't think Mr Fowler will be at least not as party chairman , another prediction I will make I think the Tories will get a drubbing in the local elections in May , I think they are going to get a drubbing in the Euro elections in June . |
| 5 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 6 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 7 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 8 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 9 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 10 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 11 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 12 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 13 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 14 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 15 | Thank you , Chair , it 's basically been allocated in terms of floor area , and what we 've said to Age Concern , is in so far as we continue to provide them with premises , then we will , if we adjust those charges , we will adjust their grant accordingly . |
| 16 | Thus ‘ gay is to straight not as copy is to original , but , rather , as copy is to copy ’ ( p. 31 ) . |
| 17 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 18 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 19 | The 23-year-old was on as early as the eighth minute when Andy Myers hobbled off after taking a knock . |