Example sentences of "he [is] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's as daft as a brush , and twice as wooden as t'shaft . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though untalkative , he is as inspectable as Hamlet , and no less inscrutable . |
| 5 | The comic dimension of a line like ‘ Caroline and I went to Lockets for the husbands ’ and wives ' left-wing dinner' will have passed him by ; he is as earnest as he is sanctimonious . |
| 6 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 7 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 8 | Mr Takeshita 's immediate aim is to show the Americans that he is as adept in international affairs as in domestic politics , and that they are wasting their time on a boy like Mr Kaifu . |
| 9 | He is as intent as his father on saving his own skin , and just as inattentive to the possible consequences for his wife and for the purposes of God . |
| 10 | ‘ He is as far from being a man as he is from being a baby . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am not able to acquit the Scots of this fault ( pride ) ’ , he wrote ; and ‘ ill est fier comme ung Escossoys ’ ( he is as proud as a Scot ) was his record of what the French thought of the matter . |
| 12 | But he is as prolific — and as controversial — as ever . |
| 13 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 14 | True : he is as recognisable — and as ubiquitous — as the celebrities he photographs . |
| 15 | Instead he is as incomprehensible as the blurred tattoos which decorate his skinny arms , as jumbled as his own words on What it Means to Be a Skin . |
| 16 | He is as divine as Krishna or Rama or Mohammed or Zoroaster . ’ |
| 17 | He is as daft as a brush and had to be persuaded ours was a worthwhile cause . |
| 18 | Either he is as simple and as straightforward as he would like us to believe , or he is , as many who have been around him think , so infinitely and deviously smart that , like a fox , he just ca n't be captured . |
| 19 | And Dicks is eager to prove to the Italians that he is as much of a mean machine as his new bike . |
| 20 | Far from it — where other people 's welfare is concerned , or the mechanics of his own achievements , he is as serious and practical as the world out there might require . |
| 21 | But for now he is as immovable as England hero Robin Smith , who blasted Graham Gooch 's men to a quickfire success , clinching his third Man of the Match award as well as Man of the Series . |
| 22 | He is as impulsive and easily distracted as KLF leader Bill Drummond , and similarly shifts queer guises ( with scant regard for commercial consequences ) at an extraordinary rate . |
| 23 | He is as honestly confused as everybody else by a South African township riot . |
| 24 | Thanks to his three months of briefings , he is as eloquent about managed competition as anyone , and as cautious about price controls . |
| 25 | He is as much my flesh and blood as Curtis is and he 's going to stay here . |
| 26 | It is accepted that a list MdB who has been defeated in a constituency may make his services available there , and he is as likely as the constituency 's own MdB to receive requests for assistance . |
| 27 | But his daughters , on whom he is as dependent as a baby , refuse to get up in what they call the middle of the night to enable him to pursue his observations . |
| 28 | Do n't they show up what he is ? … alert and benign — he is as good as he is intelligent . |
| 29 | He is as much subject to the Yasa as anyone else . ’ |
| 30 | He is as interested in perfecting a paint finish that is redolent of a medieval misericord as he is in capturing the ephemeral nature of a Polaroid in the lines of a perspex chair . |