Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ballerina series comprises three eating apples , all derived from ‘ Golden Delicious ’ which maybe accounts for their unremarkable flavour , and a very attractive crab called ‘ Maypole ’ which can be left to grow as tall as you like if you do n't want to pick the fruits . |
| 2 | Then you 're given the skis which stand as tall as you do and the butterflies can start fluttering . |
| 3 | Drums and bass were as solid as they come and the keyboards filled in any gaps . |
| 4 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 5 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 6 | Sam was as ordinary as they come and proud of it . |
| 7 | You 're not quite as clever as you think and your shortcomings will be all too apparent to a switched-on youngster . |
| 8 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 9 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 10 | You can be as gruesome as you like if the adventurers really start looking for bits and pieces ! |
| 11 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 12 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 13 | Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication . |
| 14 | On the other hand , for those who regard language with suspicion , especially written or printed language , on the grounds that it misleads and confuses as much as it informs and expresses , eliminating words and sentences exposes a level of communication of unsuspected richness , one in which human beings express their true meanings . |
| 15 | and really , I mean you know , you can talk about male , female bias as much as you like but there 's an awful of actresses , and not , you know , a lot fewer actors and a lot better parts for men . |
| 16 | You ca n't for real you ca n't really move blue ball you can move the red ball as much as you like but not What you have to do is to so just try a normally conventional just sling straight through here |
| 17 | You can ask as much as you like and the answer will be no ! |
| 18 | You can go out and about as much as you wish and are able . |
| 19 | You can make that and put down as much as you want and then you roll the dice . |
| 20 | You can rook your employers for as much as you want if you must , but I pay my own way , ’ she said firmly . |
| 21 | You can not possibly eat as much as you do and remain so slim . ’ |
| 22 | I know as much as I know cos I watch this this morning |
| 23 | You completely the wife actually what erm another good point was that you got in are , are there dependants there were certain close questions again , the fact that the wife smoked a pipe gave you the opportunity to turn round and say well that 's , that 's good , that 's a benefit because she could be classed as a non-smoker there 's just wee er opportunities there and that 's as much as I had if anyone else wants to add to these comments . |
| 24 | ‘ Probably not as much as I did when I was a kid ; the travelling part is hard . |
| 25 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 26 | I expect Charlotte owed her quite as much as I do and loved her for her undemanding support and affection as I did . |
| 27 | But I love Augusta as much as he does and anything can happen . ’ |
| 28 | Mary 's nobles detested her insolent consort almost as much as she did and , either from genuine loyalty to her or in devious application of their own power politics , conspired to remove him . |
| 29 | What he wanted , of course , was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could . |
| 30 | This treatment , which originated in Japan , is by no means as violent as it sounds and it can be used , in varying degrees , on anyone from babies to the very old . |