Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | In all those appointments he was popular both as preacher and pastor , but he kept up his musical activities , graduating D.Mus . |
| 32 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 33 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |
| 34 | Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did . |
| 35 | This very popular music with its haunting , melancholy and often monotonous melodies is sung in Madeira but has never become as popular here as it is in Portugal . |
| 36 | We are committed to ensuring that this reputation remains as sound tomorrow as it is today . |
| 37 | Mushy peas are believed to have originated in the North and remain as popular today as they have ever been . |
| 38 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 39 | Similarly , things can be inseparable even as they are distinguishable , as water = H20 . |
| 40 | Packages were expensive — in excess of £30,000 in 1982 terms — and in some cases did not offer on-line data entry facilities and were not cost justifiable particularly as all the facilities would not be required . |
| 41 | It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues . |
| 42 | mm , maybe I 've got it wrong there as well , alright , okay , carry on |
| 43 | Racial politics were as distasteful then as now but were as the government put it " part of an essential compromise " . |
| 44 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 45 | No one is clear yet as to how exactly it will work out . |
| 46 | This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion . |
| 47 | Kino 's international success is pretty doubtful however as the image is nothing new and the lyrics do n't really get through . |
| 48 | Gerbier , for instance , says on window design that they ‘ must be as high again as wyde … ’ and that their mouldings needed ‘ the broad brim of a good hat to a travaileur on a rainy day ’ . |
| 49 | Appreciably bigger than Skipton , High Wycombe , as the leading town of Buckinghamshire , contained a solid merchant class which made per capita wealth there half as high again as in the villages of the Chilterns where really rich men were thin on the ground . |
| 50 | She was not otherwise positively ill-looking , though anxious , meagre , of a muddy complexion , and looking as old again as she really was . |
| 51 | Here are to be found squares and terraces as distinguished architecturally as in other British cities , and shopping streets which have been precincted and pedestrianised . |
| 52 | He who does what is right , is righteous just as he |
| 53 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 54 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 55 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 56 | However , I quite enjoyed describing the horrors of my creation , and shared with Edward Young , the architect , his revulsion for the hideous house , covered in peeling stucco , as chilling within as without . |
| 57 | While the Panel does not fall squarely within this category of body , its activities are considered by the courts to be sufficiently similar so as to be subject to judicial review . |
| 58 | They had been as contented together as could have been expected , he supposed , from a union which had been largely one of convenience and accommodation ; and he would always remember , with a sort of perverse affection , her rather loud voice , her over-daubed war-paint — and , of course , the painful state of those poor feet of hers … |
| 59 | Oh it 's a Central only as well . |
| 60 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |