Example sentences of "[adj] [is] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 2 | Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) . |
| 3 | This is as much for their protection as ours , ’ says Gatfield ( see Mark Melton 's and Mark Boomla 's articles for details of the legal and financial aspects of recording , publishing and other contracts ) . |
| 4 | This is as obvious as it is tedious ! |
| 5 | This is as true for those who , like those in FYT 's full-time staff team , serve God 's servants , as it is for those who are at the sharpest end . |
| 6 | This is as true of guavas and pomegranates as it is of maize and rice , as true of lettuce and asparagus as it is of cabbages and carrots . |
| 7 | This is as well as ‘ an attempt at mind regression ’ and Vic and Bob 's appearance as alter-egos , Donald and Davey Stott , who this weekend will be trying out some magic . |
| 8 | This is as much because the D-mark is weak as because the dollar is strong ; the dollar has gained only 8% against the yen . |
| 9 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 10 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 11 | This is as true for a line of music by Mozart or Gershwin as for the skyline of Salisbury Cathedral of the Taj Mahal . |
| 12 | This is as true of volcanoes and meteoric craters as of the functional orifices of animals . |
| 13 | This is as true for attempts to change the nature of the management process itself as it is for the more obvious areas of change management . |
| 14 | This is as true of Germany as anywhere else . |
| 15 | This is as difficult as trying to square a circle . |
| 16 | This is as far as you can get from Cupitt 's picture of a reactionary , static super-tyrant [ in his Taking Leave of God ] always making sure the universe remains the same and conforms to the old unchanging laws . |
| 17 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 18 | This is as true in health care as elsewhere . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’ |
| 20 | I believe that this is as much a matter of teaching style as of a correct single method ( it is also a matter of the ‘ ear ’ and sensitivity to language of individual pupils ) . |
| 21 | Today , this is as much an art as a science , because of the huge differences of scale between small laboratory experiments and conditions in industrial reactors . |
| 22 | This is as expected , but it does not seem to matter , as Dr W. R. Allen of the ARC Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry at Cambridge has shown . |
| 23 | All this is as old as history . |
| 24 | Time and again , Marco Polo boldly goes where no recording company has ventured before , pulling wonderful surprise after wonderful surprise out of the hat , and this is as good as any of them . |
| 25 | This is as much to do with you as it is to do with me . |
| 26 | This is as true of scientists as of any other group of humans , some would say more so . |
| 27 | Much of this is as amusing as it is absurd . |
| 28 | The train of thought that begins like this is as slippery as an eel , and the only effective way to catch it is to examine the truth of the matter . |
| 29 | But it is tied to the capitalist social order and therefore it can not strategically deal with the causes of discrimination ( this is as true of discrimination against women , against black people , against those with disabilities ) . |
| 30 | Like most teen movies made by concerned middle-aged parents , this is as irrelevant as a Bing Crosby record at a Beastie Boys concert . |