Example sentences of "[pers pn] is as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 2 | The Queen may not be a Munro , nevertheless she is as regal a lady as any walker could wish to climb . |
| 3 | She is as much a part of the family as Mrs Lewis 's own baby sons … we think she is very fortunate to have found such a wonderfully happy home . ’ |
| 4 | She is as gentle as a lamb and while most people are cautious when meeting her , they soon think she 's wonderful . |
| 5 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 6 | ‘ She is as fat as he is , and wo n't walk either ; so we have to do it . |
| 7 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |
| 8 | She is as bigoted as they come , but the laughter is deafening . |
| 9 | Nowadays however she is as forgotten as James Gore- Dillon , the Anglo-Irish playwright contemporary of W.B. Yeats , whose lone play , ‘ In The Shadow Of The Gunman 's Glen ’ , was rehearsed only once by the West Of Ireland Players in a shed in Swinford in 1910 . |
| 10 | So far as the finger-work or typesetting goes , she is as quick or quicker than a man ? — They say she is more deft and better adapted to it " ( a trade unionist ) . |
| 11 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 12 | She is as old as he is , and has had lovers and sadnesses , and difficulties of her own making . |
| 13 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
| 14 | Hannah knows her , of course , but she is as tight-lipped about names and places as everyone else in Cotherstone . |
| 15 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 16 | Brittain said : ‘ User Friendly showed she is as good as we always thought she was . |
| 17 | So she is as interested as I am in our surroundings : china cabinets full of dishes and ornaments inherited from the households of several unknown and long-dead cousins , armchairs with bloated cushions , a piano that no one has played in forty years . |
| 18 | She is as much Miss ‘ Kyte ’ as I am , the wretch ! ’ |
| 19 | Let's hope she is as good as she looks . |
| 20 | She is as common as what . |
| 21 | yes , she is as tall as you , she 's five seven |
| 22 | Her fantasy about the 80-year-old Sir Timothy Shelley , whose death would secure her a legacy , reversing through the ageing process back to sprightly youth while everyone else cracks up around him is as funny as Byron and more good-humoured . |
| 23 | Columbus in this bitter dream makes Isabella see the truth at last , makes her accept that her need for him is as great as his for her . |
| 24 | For example , if you are embarking on Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona and her Proteus letter , it is as well to have a sheet of paper that you can tear up to make the scene start with a dramatic focus and give the lines some action . |
| 25 | A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day … |
| 26 | However , mats can themselves pose hazards , and it is as well if you are aware of these . |
| 27 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 28 | ‘ It is as well he is not a Papist , then , or the Pope would take off his frock. , ‘ He what ? ’ |
| 29 | It must be the Sabbath getting into our bones. , ‘ It is as well to take a full look at the worst . ’ |
| 30 | Yet one picks it up , in hints and implications , in the not-quite-concealed exasperation of polite administrators , in the raised eyebrows and brief knowing smiles of senior academics on committees ; indeed , it is as much a matter of what is significantly not said , as of what is said ; in poststructuralist terms , of lacunae , vides , silences . |