Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father died when she was a kid , as did her uncle , which meant that her grandfather who was as rich as Croesus had no one else to leave his ill-gotten gains to . |
| 2 | I was- ’ She stopped as Ace and Petion came through the office door with a black man she did n't recognize . |
| 3 | This evidence , like the evidence discussed in Children 's Minds , provides support for the argument that young children are not nearly as egocentric as Piaget claimed . |
| 4 | These days , this is about as innovative as Hollywood gets , of course , but when the result is performed with the pace and panache of Russell Mulcahy 's Ricochet , maybe we should be grateful for small mercies . |
| 5 | The chef warrant officer was every bit as odious as Ingrid had been told to expect . |
| 6 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 7 | In the Beveridge report an average unemployment rate of 8 ½%; was mentioned , but as optimism grew figures as low as 3% came to be used . |
| 8 | In general the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) behave as low and high-pass filters respectively , the responses being given by equation ( 10.40 ) with the appropriate values of Z 1 and Z 2 inserted in each case . |
| 9 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 10 | Historians were as willing as hagiographers to use oral tradition . |
| 11 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a time when I intended to fight — perhaps I still would if I thought I had a chance and if I ever saw either of them , but it 's hard to fight for a man as elusive as Roman has become . ’ |
| 13 | It should n't be too bad at all , she said to her brother , if he was as charming as Hector had been , and more polished with it ! |
| 14 | Yet the frequency of occurrence need not be as high as 90% to qualify as a regularity . |
| 15 | the judge commented that there is a tendency among some solicitors to put forward grossly inflated percentages and failed to appreciate that to justify a mark-up even as high as 100% required a demonstration that the case was exceptional . |
| 16 | With sales of vegetarian products estimated at a minimum of £335m in 1990 by Marketing Strategies for Industry ( and possibly as high as £1bn according to definitions ) , it is potentially a highly lucrative market to tap into , particularly when , according to Juliet Gellatley , campaigns director for the Vegetarian Society , the number of non-meat eaters rose by 94% between 1990 and 1991 . |
| 17 | An incidence as high as 10% has been reported after combined procedures . |
| 18 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 19 | How could someone as good-looking as Miguel do something so lowdown and mean ? |
| 20 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Frankish Kings could be as brutal as Euric had been in the days of Visigothic expansion . |
| 22 | Even Lloyd George , whose origins were as lowly as Law 's had been , could not stoop to so humble a style , and only Stanley Baldwin ( who drew much of his inspiration from Law ) was able to do so successfully . |
| 23 | He had remembered ( how could he have forgotten ? ) that the suburb had once boasted a poisoner almost as celebrated as Henry intended to be . |
| 24 | I do not think , however , that the distinction between nociceptive and neuropathic pain is as clear as Bowsher suggests . |
| 25 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 26 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 27 | He paused , looking as desolate as Ruth felt . |
| 28 | But , even if the musical system were as constrictive as Adorno supposes , could listeners be so unfree ? |
| 29 | Whether the transformation is as stark as Atiyah suggests , there can be no doubt that , as he contends , nineteenth-century contract law ‘ was closely related to the ideas of the political economists and to the rise of the market economy ’ . |
| 30 | Recipes for lamb appear in every kind of cookery book , from dishes as simple as Lancashire hotpot through to the magnificent Guard of Honour . |