Example sentences of "[is] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kapuscinski 's courtiers and petitioners are about as black as Johnson 's Prince Rasselas , who is about as black as he is white . |
| 2 | Compared with the mysteries surrounding the deaths of President Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe , the controversy surrounding Spandau 's 93-year-old inmate is about as interesting as the fall of a dead leaf . |
| 3 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 4 | IT IS about as impenetrable as any dispute in the European Community can get , but it threatens either to seriously weaken the edifice of ‘ Project 1992 ’ or at least to bury businessmen under a landslide of new paperwork . |
| 5 | His changes , designed to tighten the defence for another tilt at the European Cup , has not pleased all critics and he knows his twin requirement is about as tough as football can provide . |
| 6 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 7 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 8 | Written by Peter Corrigan , with first-person inserts from JDavies , this handsome book is about as close as one can get to a warts-and-all picture of an ambitious international player . |
| 9 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 10 | The more inglorious aspects of Morrison 's life and behaviour , and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his ‘ followers ’ are n't concealed , but then Jones does n't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either : ‘ Humility was a trait which did n't sit well with Morrison ’ is about as heavy as the criticism gets . |
| 11 | ‘ LEIGH HUNT lived here ’ is about as exclusive a tag for a house as ‘ Queen Elizabeth slept here ’ . |
| 12 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 13 | If a new factory creates a pollutant which is about as poisonous as , say , privet leaves , it may be heckled out of business . |
| 14 | Whatever the buying power of the greenback elsewhere , to Lloyds Bank in London it is about as useful as a Russian rouble , an Indian rupee or a Mexican peso . |
| 15 | So far , the New Age is about as new as man himself . |
| 16 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 17 | Point Three : ‘ I suspect this ( those silly ‘ positive ’ electrons again ) is about as accurate as Aspen 's often repeated claims that a soft vacuum creates a soft sound and a hard vacuum creates a hard sound . ’ |
| 18 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |
| 19 | With a power rating of 300 watts the DSP 715 is about as small as it could realistically be , standing at 507mm high , 464mm wide and 362mm deep ; and at 77lbs in weight there 's no real difficulty in heaving it up on stage . |
| 20 | The name Mad Axe is about as inappropriate as anyone could imagine . |
| 21 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 22 | Tracy Island is about as easy to locate as Atlantis and all the models except Lady Penelope 's pink Rolls seem to have taken flight . |
| 23 | As a result , Lewis was able to announce triumphant plans to get rich by fighting fat old George Foreman , whom Maloney ridiculed as an opponent for Bowe , to push for the split of the titles and still claim the high moral ground , which in heavyweight boxing , is about as firm as quicksand . |
| 24 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 25 | Never mind the action , which sometimes resembles a low-tech early-Eighties video game and is about as interesting to watch . |
| 26 | This is about as ‘ holey ’ as the lace can get because you need at least one needle adjacent to a selected needle to accept the transferred stitch . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , Keith 's favourite fare is about as plain as you can get . |
| 28 | Skid Row are ninth row division Guns N'Roses wannabes , and this turgid slab of rotting , flyblown rock ratmeat is about as sexy , young and wild as the corpse of David Mellor in a bulging G-string . |
| 29 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 30 | A When using an ‘ every needle rib ’ set up ( same number of needles on main bed as on ribber ) then really , to be kind to your machine , a three-ply is about as thick as you should go . |