Example sentences of "[is] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing is definite as yet . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he 's rich as hell ; I 'd heard he was an art lover . |
| 4 | Her plump red lips said : he 's rich as hell and he 's crazy about me , look what I 'm going to get . |
| 5 | It was n't just us though , there 's Rich as well you see . |
| 6 | Most ethical intuitionists came to think that what the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy established was not so much that good is indefinable as that ethical expressions are either indefinable or only satisfactorily definable in terms which involve some other distinctively ethical expression . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 8 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 9 | Anyway , avoidance is unnecessary as for the most part it 's enjoyable . |
| 10 | This is unnecessary as in my experience most of these species will quickly adept to dead fish or meat if you allow them . |
| 11 | If you enjoy penetrative sex and would like your partner to use a condom , his response might range from ‘ it interrupts making love ’ , ‘ it reduces my sensitivity ’ , or ‘ it is unnecessary as we trust each other ’ . |
| 12 | In my opinion and I think that of all true fishkeepers , this is unnecessary as there are numerous brightly-coloured fish without a practice that should be banned . |
| 13 | It argues that protection for the birds is unnecessary as they are not threatened by current control practices . |
| 14 | is dry as one does . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's guilty as hell . ’ |
| 16 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |
| 17 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 18 | It is clear that the power of the company is political as well as economic . |
| 19 | The importance of class is political as well as social . |
| 20 | ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin . |
| 21 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 22 | God 's presence extends throughout what is impersonal as well as what is personal . |
| 23 | Such a scheme is simpler as it avoids the necessity for a reduction of share capital . |
| 24 | It 's strange as I look back ; friendships shall never be the same ; or opinions of Officers , especially Officers . |
| 25 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |
| 26 | that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting . |
| 27 | Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P . |
| 28 | She is that as well . |
| 29 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 30 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |