Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 2 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 3 | If Barth was now able to say at least some of the things that Brunner also wished to say , he was doing so within his own perspective — and demonstrating at the same , time that that perspective was not as narrow and restricted as Brunner had imagined it must be . |
| 4 | More work on government projects helped close the gap left by cash-strapped home-owners — not as profitable as kitting out private homes , but not to be sneezed at either . |
| 5 | Marlow is understandably keen to play down the word fungus , preferring to describe it as myco-protein and stress its undeniable virtues such as its high fibre and protein content , coupled with low fat and non-existent cholesterol . |
| 6 | I like to think that Miranda will survive her crisis and not be as depressed and defeated as she is now . |
| 7 | Commerce can be seen to be more closely regulated from the late seventh and eighth centuries onwards in the form of manufacturing and trading centres ( Hodges 1982a ) , although these certainly do not necessarily imply free trade ; in fact , quite the opposite , for the evidence from Saxon Southampton , Hamwic , indicates that the craftsman there were as tied and organised as the rural ‘ peasantry ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Pull garment over to hang as normal and push needles into holding position . |
| 10 | Sex should be as normal as easing or drinking . |
| 11 | What 's up here ? ’ her reaction on looking down on Agnes was just as loud and domineering : ‘ Which bloody fool among you brought her in ! |
| 12 | Environmental pollution in the Gulf has not been as extensive as feared , according to a survey by a team from the Monaco-based Marine Environment Laboratory , an arm of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) [ see also ED 62 ] . |
| 13 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 14 | and they were as pissed as farts . |
| 15 | Alison signalled her appreciation of this pun , but took a neo-McLuhanite line herself , arguing that since actuality was the essence of the medium , watching a classic novel on television was as odd as reading it in a newspaper . |
| 16 | Bates described it as confusing and needing clarification . |
| 17 | As neither of us knew anything about it we tried to glean as much information on the technical side of sailing as possible and build it in to our globe-trotting plans . |
| 18 | Staying on here was about as possible as flying to the moon . |
| 19 | Finding a taxi at 4.55 in London is every bit as possible as finding Bruce Willis in your bed . |
| 20 | It may be prudent to discuss the possibility of a candidate 's overseas posting with as many managers whom he has dealings with as possible or send the employee to an assessment centre . |
| 21 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 22 | Further , the quaint Kelsenian point that the lawmaker can even determine outside the frame can not offer Finnis much of a target because , if the frame is as indeterminate as to admit of contradictory determinations , then the distinction between a determination within and a determination outwith the frame is meaningless . |
| 23 | Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Only two infants could not be held as low as intended , and omitting these from analysis does not substantially alter the results . |
| 26 | Oh , ’ she pushed Nathan forward , who 'd been hanging sullenly back , making it apparent he thought this visit nowhere near as entertaining as prowling Arcady with the others . |
| 27 | The whole place seemed as empty and deserted as the Beast 's magic castle , though she was certainly no Beauty , Luce thought ruefully . |
| 28 | But constructing a plot for a crime short story can on occasion be as demanding as constructing a plot for a whole crime novel . |
| 29 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 30 | 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 . |