Example sentences of "[adj] as [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same , off he went , as calm as could be , and so the theft remained undetected . |
| 2 | What , if , after taking out my kidney and pronouncing me as clear as could be seen , a dreaded secondary was to occur ? |
| 3 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 4 | Up the winding lane from Wadebridge which was once the main road , a large light clearing reveals the house , down its straight grassy approach , as calm and gentle and Cornish as could be . |
| 5 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 6 | The standard of work is high as can be seen from a small section shown in PLATE 15 . |
| 7 | He did not want a classical house , but something cosy and as English as could be . |
| 8 | Barbados was British through and through , and one of his friends said of him many years later : ‘ He was as English as can be . |
| 9 | And standing on the resting birds are massive caryatids — each one as grim and unsmiling as might be expected of a lady who is balancing an arch on her head . |
| 10 | The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work . |
| 11 | In fact it may not be so different as may at first be thought . |
| 12 | A dull cool summer it had been , as different as could be from the year before . |
| 13 | New restaurant tables and chairs — In this case Replacement cost is likely to equal historic cost so either of these would be acceptable as would economic value . |
| 14 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ As cage birds they are as interesting as can possibly be imagined ; for , independently of their highly ornamental appearance , they differ from all the other members of their family that I am acquainted with , in having a most animated and pleasing song ; besides which , they are constantly billing , cooing , and feeding each other , and assuming every possible variety of graceful position . |
| 16 | The specific nature of the stress will vary enormously from one individual to another as will their specific symptomatic response . |
| 17 | It would appear then that not everything in the garden is quite as rosy as might have been suspected . |
| 18 | it therefore determines to provide increasing opportunities for the study of the social sciences and the arts in courses of such type and standard as will demand of students the effort essential to understanding ; |
| 19 | ( However , it should be pointed out that the Welsh and Scottish figures are percentages of much higher unemployment rates and are , therefore , not as favourable as might at first seem ) . |
| 20 | In other words , if there is to be a contribution from taxes to balance the operating account , then it should be explicit and calculation of it should also be explicit as should a contribution from Housing to the General Fund . |
| 21 | You clear the hole as much as may be necessary to judge the direction the line is taking within the hole , gauge where the second hole must be dug and carry tin . |
| 22 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 23 | I know we can thank them for showing some tennis , unlike ITV which does n't show any at all , but they do n't show half as much as would all like . |
| 24 | But we 're s we 're gon na be charging it approximately twice as much as would . |
| 25 | But but but we 're only charging twice as much as would erm because are providing a standard bearing . |
| 26 | There was some land reform , redistributing large white estates among these black smallholders — though not by any means as much as might have been expected . |
| 27 | A possible explanation for this apparently delayed effect of the Black Death is that the first onset , despite its virulence , did not harm the economy as a whole as much as might have been expected , and that it was the continuing effect of later outbreaks which did the greater damage . |
| 28 | Civil rights , as opposed to political rights , may be as much as can be hoped for . |
| 29 | Certainly the attitudinist can allow deductive reasoning full sway in ethics , since attitudes can be logically inconsistent one with another just as much as can beliefs . |
| 30 | Nah , cos right we 're just gon na say as much as can on this tape . |