Example sentences of "be neither as " in BNC.

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1 In Asia , haggling is widespread , although its intricacies are neither as complicated nor as deeply engrained as in the Middle East .
2 IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were .
3 Temporary , partial scleroses in the 1950s encouraged gloomy prognoses , but the British novel is neither as dead nor as indisposed to innovation as its critics have sometimes supposed .
4 A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration .
5 At the same time it can exploit the low thermal conductivity of the air ; i.e. the way the temperature of the air itself is neither as hot nor as cool as the land surface .
6 So the English village is neither as immemorial nor as unchanging as it is conventionally believed to be .
7 My reaction to female flesh was neither as extreme nor as ignorant as that , and it was only my own , not that of other women , which caused me to feel revulsion .
8 The overwhelming case for his inclusion was neither as Archbishop nor as martyr but as author of the magnificent liturgy which held the Church together during the tribulations of the next century , and above all for his Collects , which Anglicans through four centuries would learn by heart as children and recite when they came to die .
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