Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Im not saying Mel is fast — he ai nt … but he s not as slow as he looks ( he played right wing for Sheff Wed — the same size ) . |
| 2 | He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared . |
| 3 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 4 | Everyone knows he is not as good as The Smiths were , ’ he says . |
| 5 | He is not as interested in comfortable relationships as with developing the character of Christ in our lives . |
| 6 | He is not as forceful a character as Mike Lester , with less in the way of business acumen or entrepreneurial flair , but he is technically competent , and is not only respected as a manager but liked for his loyalty towards his subordinates . |
| 7 | One prisoner writes of another in his block : ‘ He has an IQ that 's slightly above freezing temperature Fahrenheit but he knows that he was wrong and he is not as dumb as he wants people to believe . |
| 8 | The Chatterbox , although he is not as bad as the interrupter , is still a nuisance . |
| 9 | Travers realizes that he is not as skilled as these two and returns home to his wife , Marie , and a more honest way of making a living . |
| 10 | ‘ He is just as fit as he was 12 months ago and just as good ’ , he added . |
| 11 | In argument about the treatment of the script — these things process in ordered stages — he is just as likely to enlist Bergman as Schwarzenegger as supporting evidence . |
| 12 | At the same time , Beethoven himself is a less comprehensive representation of the totality of the social struggles of his age than Adorno pretends ; in a way he is just as ‘ partial ’ as his far more popular contemporary , Rossini . |
| 13 | That 's how serious we are and although Mr er has to give his little laugh but I hope that he is just as much serious er particularly now that the political realities are that we will have a way forward , of not only supporting the delivery and management of community education services in that particular area but a clear focus has now been given , hopefully after this amendment er has been carried to the education authority . |
| 14 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 15 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 16 | His introduction will be no walk-over but if he is half as good over fences as he was over hurdles , he should win . |
| 17 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 18 | Anyway , I 'm sure Fiver must find it as hard as you : he 's just as small . " |
| 19 | Anyway , I bet he 's just as fond of the ladies as they are of him . ’ |
| 20 | He 's good , he 's brilliant , and he 's probably as sound as a bell . |
| 21 | He 's not as horrible as people say . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He 's not as ugly as that . |
| 23 | The shirt 's a bit bright , and he 's not as young as you thought , but that 's OK. hell , Nick Cave 's no spring chicken . |
| 24 | Nobody ever told him where to draw the line , and he 's not as innocent as he looks — he 's got quite a reputation for wildness . ‘ |
| 25 | ‘ He 's not as aggressive as he might be but that could come , and he has more skill and speed than someone like John Fashanu , who plays an intimidating game . |
| 26 | C. complains that he 's not as helpful or responsive as some of the other people he has to deal with in other factories . |
| 27 | Socially , he 's not as dependent on the company of others as the endomorph . |
| 28 | Still , even with all his money , I 'm sure he 's not as nice as penniless David . |
| 29 | She says the setting is lovely , but when we saw hime at the Albert Hall he was superb — he 's not as good this evening . |
| 30 | He 's not as old as you is he ? |