Example sentences of "as [adj] as [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying on here was about as possible as flying to the moon . |
| 2 | ‘ It crossed my mind that I could push open the door and drop the dinghy myself , but I soon realised that the workload would be far too heavy , flying as low as intended for the drop . |
| 3 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 4 | It is possible to achieve the largest offsets in Pb isotopic composition at Madeira with U/Pb as high as measured in the lavas in 130Myr , the age of the lithosphere ( Fig. 2c ) . |
| 5 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 6 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 7 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 8 | The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) similarly broods upon the capacity of its own language and structure to contain a reality which can be obscured as much as illumined by the illusions of art . |
| 9 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 10 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 11 | You 'll need to spread your talents if you hope to make a living from writing and I 'd recommend reading Thirty Ways to Make Money From Writing by Jennie Hawthorne ( Rosters , £4.95 ) which covers markets as diverse as working for the trade press , humour and writing for children . |
| 12 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |
| 13 | TRYING to talk to civil servants was as hard as talking to the man from Reader 's Digest ( see above ) . |
| 14 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 15 | These produce higher frequencies of digestion , with more than half the teeth in their prey assemblages suffering damage ( Table 3.12 ) , but the degree of digestion is not as great as seen in the species of category 5 . |
| 16 | ‘ The operational differences between federal and unitary states may not be as great as portrayed by the constitutional-legal classics on federalism ’ . |
| 17 | Mental repetition has been shown by research on basketball players to be as effective as going through the actions . |
| 18 | ‘ I am never going to write a song as good as Blowing In The Wind , ’ he says . |
| 19 | To represent Britain in the way I 'm doing , to me that 's just as good as fighting in the war . |
| 20 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 21 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |
| 22 | King is currently on holiday but Mr Corfe added : ‘ John will be delighted when he hears about this because he feels that getting into the Pontins League is , in the long-term , almost as important as getting into the Premier League . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The girls are doing their bit here and that 's just as important as going in the WAAFs or the WRNS . |
| 24 | So much so of course that er that er the the elder brother , he was er he was er a branch official by this time , twenty six , at the er Hucknall Colliery , the local colliery , and of course when the strike er was over , er that was the end of he as far as working in the in the coal mining industry in this particular area , that was the end of it . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , less than a mile away , Therapy ? are happily getting as drunk as newts in a British style pub bar celebrating yours truly 's latest bastard birthday . |
| 26 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 27 | In this activity , the teacher saw the choice to observe silently , to reflect upon what was observed individually as legitimate and as educational as engaging in an animated discussion . |
| 28 | They are sometimes referred to as the ‘ major ’ religious traditions , but this would be as misleading as referring to the other religions as ‘ primitive ’ . |
| 29 | With something as uncertain as output from a text recogniser , it is also valid to consider that the trigram value stored for x→y→z , also contains information about the likelihood of x given y and z as successors , and the likelihood of y to have x as a predecessor and z as a successor . |