Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were suddenly as sharp as daggers . |
| 2 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 3 | The flat seemed suddenly as small and confining as a birdcage . |
| 4 | She looked up into those eyes , suddenly as deep and soft as velvet , aware that his words were spinning shapelessly in her head . |
| 5 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 6 | It was suddenly as clear as day . |
| 7 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 8 | Virginia was suddenly as white as her sister-in-law as they made the tortuous descent down the wide , dog-leg staircase , and across the hall . |
| 9 | He did not answer her immediately , just continued to watch her across the table , his blue eyes suddenly as cold as ice . |
| 10 | uprisings and so as contemporary surely , you know , er he has n't got or anything so he can , he , he 's got his own er political beliefs |
| 11 | She did not want to see him , and did so as little as possible . |
| 12 | Of those who did marry , comparatively few did so as young as 20 . |
| 13 | library so as possible I suppose . |
| 14 | So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice . |
| 15 | Some woman-centred psychologists think , too , that only a woman should study female subjects , and that she should do so as much as possible , because only she can understand them . |
| 16 | So he said he did n't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we 'll go to the Regal tonight . |
| 17 | ‘ So as many social programmes and educational things that you take away from the youth , the more and more you foster illiteracy , the more and more you foster disenfranchisement and the more dangerous the population becomes , you see ? |
| 18 | So as many examples as you can think of , of driving , where energy changes from one sort to another er where your energy is going , what 's using it up , where it 's coming from . |
| 19 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 20 | So as far as the actual topics I 'm going to cover are concerned , erm can everybody see . |
| 21 | So as far as you 're concerned , P E Ps have got a tremendous part to play at the moment , and I do recommend that you take advantage of them . |
| 22 | Yes , , I 've never heard the er the full title before , it 's always just been er so I was so as far as I 've always heard it . |
| 23 | Erm so as far as the , the you know , the steps was concerned that , that went through good , very well , and you went through them all in er in , in the right order . |
| 24 | Erm and so as far as extra traffic at Stansted Airport is concerned the big problem they 've got is getting the airways to go there . |
| 25 | So as far as reducing stocks are concerned , am I to reduce my figures by |
| 26 | so then if we go back to the beginning of this discussion Mr , it must follow must it not that there is a risk , clause nine is inaccurable so as far as all names are |
| 27 | so as far as I 'm concerned even though it 's me running it |
| 28 | So as far as everyone is concerned at home , that 's as you were . |
| 29 | Each dt fusion released 17 MeV of energy , and so as few as eight sequential dt fusions are sufficient to release more energy than is contained in a muon at rest ( its ‘ rest energy ’ or mass ) . |
| 30 | A relationship is only as deep and as effective as its communication . |