Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 2 | The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear Paige , at my age , nothing seems as hopeless as it does to you . |
| 5 | That is not as technical as it may seem . |
| 6 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
| 7 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 8 | This last ambition may not be as absurd as it looks ; Sigistrix was , after all , the grandson of Theodoric . |
| 9 | It lives in large family groups and is said to be as shy as it is fearsome-looking . |
| 10 | In large measure , the background to the Bill reflects the unease with the SGA 1979 with its echoes of 19th century sales practice where the distinction between retail and wholesale sales was not as acute as it is today . |
| 11 | But the danger to his life is every bit as acute as it was when an aged cleric in a distant country first pronounced the fateful sentence . |
| 12 | Seriously , Wide Awake 's begrudging attitude towards the Lower Ormeau 's attempts to boost its morale is as shameful as it is wrong . |
| 13 | Kylie never tires of telling interviewers that life at home at Camberwell High School was just as normal as it could possibly be . |
| 14 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Vanessa herself suffers a downfall as humiliating as it is spectacular . |
| 16 | It 's not co it 's still working , but it 's the you can see the the washing is not as dry as it was before . |
| 17 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 18 | Otherwise it is as complete as it was over a century ago , with no less than 700 lots being offered for sale in two parts . |
| 19 | It was now generally agreed ( despite claims to the same effect reaching back to the 1930s and beyond ) that the map of literary history was as complete as it was ever likely to become . " |
| 20 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 21 | Your voice is as loud as it is insistent and , as if that were n't bad enough , what you speak of is as boring as it is unseemly . |
| 22 | The air around each of them is by no means as sweet-smelling as it was then and the water that flows over the falls into the harbour is certainly not as pure . |
| 23 | There remain concerns that academic freedom is not as entrenched as it should be . |
| 24 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 25 | Erm I think probably yes the debate has been probably as extensive as it needs to be . |
| 26 | The Bank , as we know , came up with another offer later in the year which must go down as historic as it entailed a zero increase for a nineteen month period . |
| 27 | This might be achieved using the power of guardianship , often regarded as toothless as it has no power to enforce medication . |
| 28 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 29 | The gradual expansion of the teacher 's role from presenter of information to carer was as accidental as it was logical . |
| 30 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |