Example sentences of "as [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resenting this , and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war , many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names . |
| 2 | He was as rooted as the policemen , as the people in the cars , as Steve and Mr Chan . |
| 3 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
| 4 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 5 | Bargain set menus change with the market and are the best choice : Connaught-trained chef whisks up ultra-light leek terrine layered like lasagne , heaps of appley duck with green pasta tower , and neatly balanced fish casserole a la Dieppoise ; there 's also a meaty crab tart ( £3.95 ) and a choc pave as rich as the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Bream do not transfer successfully even to a water equally as rich as the one they came from . |
| 7 | Independent craftsmen and small tradesmen formed a middling group , and at the top of urban society were the merchants who were as rich as the rural gentry . |
| 8 | PENNED-IN by steel barriers between a noisy crowd of gay liberationists and the lonely emissary of the oppressed African Dinkas , few of the street-corner causes besieging this week 's conference seem as hopeless as the campaign for Labour to organise in Ulster . |
| 9 | The duty to protest is as undeniable as the need . |
| 10 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
| 11 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 12 | In every isolated basin of the plateau the life led by the common people day after day was as monotonous as the climate and the landscape ; and everything that deviated from the ordinary , everything strange or unforeseen , was regarded as supernatural . |
| 13 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 14 | the stuff he uses is ve is n't as caustic as the stuff we |
| 15 | One essential feature of a switching language is that it be at least as specific as the languages to and from which it supports switching . |
| 16 | In the damp haziness , the route seemed sinister , and not as pleasant as the previous day 's walk . |
| 17 | Amaranth Wilikins for lunch , Angela Cartwright and Co. for dinner : Grunte hoped that the one would prove as profitable as the other . |
| 18 | Pei 's openness uses the outside so that it seems as inviting as the interior . |
| 19 | But in front of its biggest audience — the match is a 7,100 sell-out — it will look about as inviting as the Addams Family to Ardiles . |
| 20 | Eventually , Purvis sounded as depressed as the Eskimos themselves . |
| 21 | And what makes me admit that I 'm as hapless as the biography to the left suggests ? |
| 22 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 23 | Paula Milne 's decision to dramatise these events in book and play form is as admirable as the decision to make ‘ Walter ’ and undoubtedly with equally noble intent . |
| 24 | Why do certain images matter to one , and why is the desire to answer this question as involuntary as the response itself ? |
| 25 | The plot of Raving Beauties is almost as scant as the girls ' costumes . |
| 26 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 27 | Using records of oral history from these two districts , Gilmour ( 1988 ) has shown that tree cover has actually increased on private farmland over the last 20 years and while there is still an overall loss of forest it is not as acute as the HEDT suggests . |
| 28 | This is at least as controversial as the original finding ; its meaning is not clear , nor is the nature of the difference between the different D2s . |
| 29 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 30 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |