Example sentences of "[is] as [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 2 | ‘ This is as close as I want to get , Joe . ’ |
| 3 | This is as close as I have felt to Cambridgeshire for some considerable time . ’ |
| 4 | Alexandra said , emboldened by her success , ‘ Then perhaps it is as well that I do n't hunt . ’ |
| 5 | Another of my friends — the only one who comes into this category — is as plump as I am , and when we go out together we eat as much as we want , whenever we want . |
| 6 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 7 | Anyone who is reasonably skilful can knock up a mounting without difficulty , and it is possible even for someone who is as clumsy as I am . |
| 8 | The Angolan State Security Minister , Kundi Paihama , later declared his willingness to meet Savimbi , adding that " Savimbi is as Angolan as I am … |
| 9 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 10 | This one has been sounded to a depth of a mere 1,000 feet , but peer into it is as far as I would ever want to go ; such crevices are no doubt thrilling to explore when they widen out into great chambers , but the thought of the narrow places I for one find exceedingly off-putting . |
| 11 | Professionally , this is as far as I 'd ever imagined going . |
| 12 | This is as far as I can go . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a motel here , and this is as far as I want to drive today . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I like them all , but liking is as far as I 'll get — have you seen the prices ? ’ |
| 15 | That is as far as I have got . ’ |
| 16 | This is as far as I can get with my researches for now , because after lunch I have to go to the Treasury , with my colleague Jane Showell , for a meeting of the joint working party on Sunningdale ; not even death takes precedence over the Treasury . |
| 17 | That is as far as I want to go in drawing morals from Biomorph Land . |
| 18 | Erm I 've glad you 've come cos this is as far as I can get . |
| 19 | Well it 's the same as our place , a that paper is as far as I can see is jet black underneath ! |
| 20 | This teddy is as old as I am |
| 21 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The place is as busy as I 've ever seen it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If he wants to see either of us he will , but I 've no doubt he is as busy as I am , ’ she added pointedly . |
| 25 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as amazed as I am that Labour Front-Bench spokesmen refuse to dissociate themselves from that position , and therefore stand to reject ’ alien investment ’ . |
| 26 | Of course if determination is as open-ended as I have argued it is , absent any criterion to distinguish the genuine from the false determination , then no positive law could be unjust because every positive law , whatever its content , being a determination of the natural law , will necessarily be consistent with the natural law and therefore valid . |
| 27 | She 's as tall as me and weighs nearly |
| 28 | But that 's as far as I can go . |
| 29 | That 's as far as I can think . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it 's as far as I 'll go . ’ |