Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make them as bad as a ! |
| 2 | He would n't tell me what was going on down there because he did n't want to worry me as far as the safety conditions at that particular mine . |
| 3 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 4 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 5 | The real researchers found themselves as restricted as the employed technicians , and soon left in frustration . |
| 6 | You do not even need anything as obvious as a party to start you on this slippery slope . |
| 7 | Sir , Apart from the illogicality ( with all due respect to Brough Girling , 8th January ) of Jennings , Tin Tin or Milly Molly Mandy , actually growing up , can one imagine anything more unlikely than Just William becoming anything as prattish as a Tory minister or an estate agent ? |
| 8 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 9 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 10 | He describes it as imposed as a quite explicit deterrent without reference to the actual availability of work . |
| 11 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 12 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 13 | He scrubbed himself as clean as a Viking before a battle and pulled his large white linen robe around his undried nakedness , relishing the lap of texture on wet skin . |
| 14 | Indeed , I now find it puzzling why , after all this time , evolution only produced something as dismal as a human . |
| 15 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 16 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 17 | If you 've told him as much as the time , you 're out ! ’ |
| 18 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 19 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 20 | Persons of rank hardly needed anything as manifest as an active involvement in lay preaching on the part of the poor to resent the impropriety of an assertion of spiritual equality . |
| 21 | I mean something as basic as the family tree yeah |
| 22 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 23 | Rohmer swung downwards , seized Gilbert and dragged him to his feet , holding him as close as a lovers ' embrace . |
| 24 | There had never been enough personnel to form anything as large as a squadron . |
| 25 | Then , when you got inside , you could see how this man had come to run something as bizarre as The Alternative Miss World — with its transvestites and concept artists . |
| 26 | Detroit , Michigan-based Compuware says the deal will enable it to release CICS fault diagnosis products the same time as new IBM CICS releases , so giving it as much as a three-month lead over its rivals . |
| 27 | The typical rationalist will take it as self-evident that a high value is to be placed on knowledge developed in accordance with the universal criterion . |
| 28 | You can take it to your branch , you can take it to your Regional Committee , you can take it as far as the C E C and that costs a lot of money . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's coming from the right , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I can hear it as clear as a bell . ’ |
| 30 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |