Example sentences of "[noun] as [adv] as [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinians refuse to draw the line between the interim agreement on self-government and the final determination of borders as sharply as Israel does . |
| 2 | So the regulatory tactic should be to ban the risks consensus defines as unacceptable and to impose ( if necessary ) a duty to limit other risks as far as money allows . |
| 3 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 4 | What is the status of these areas as far as planning goes ? |
| 5 | In addition , it is not clear that pesticides will travel through the unsaturated zone as readily as nitrate does — they may , for example , be adsorbed by clays . |
| 6 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 7 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 9 | Well get Fantavision , this shareware product is the business as far as animation goes . |
| 10 | A fourth Tory term would mean a fourth Tory recession as surely as night follows day . |
| 11 | That is , the whore was pretty in a superficial way , and probably skilled in presenting her wares as temptingly as instinct allows . |
| 12 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 13 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |