Example sentences of "are as [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get a metric version if you wish , but despite the conversion of practically everything to metric , metric scales in fishing are as rare as rocking horse droppings . |
| 2 | In this small picture , you look down on a couple of hundred thousand people and their bodies are as invisible as microbes . |
| 3 | Northern are as good as doomed . |
| 4 | The choices ahead are as drastic and clearcut as the choice between trad jazz and new jazz . |
| 5 | Libraries and librarians , they conclude , are as bad as anticipated . |
| 6 | There is a dandified elegance to Mrs Guest : her occasion clothes are as fitting and fitted as her Huntsman riding jackets . |
| 7 | The recognition of Saxon settlements , not under medieval villages but in open sites which were later abandoned , has also indicated that settlement patterns themselves have altered and the desertion of individual settlements within the pattern , even in quite recent times , means that settlement patterns are as dynamic and changing as the settlements themselves . |