Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 2 | This point should become clearer as you read this book . |
| 3 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
| 4 | As long as we stay this dose to the hole we have to keep the rocket thrust going . ’ |
| 5 | We are humbled and brought low by them , but the spirit of man — and I now have to say woman — and the freedoms that we enjoy lie within our grasp as long as we hold this House . |
| 6 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 7 | Just the same as he loved this woman of Samaria , and because he loved her he wanted to communicate with her , he wanted to share with her , he had something for her . |
| 8 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 9 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 11 | Kate was silent as she digested this fact . |
| 12 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 13 | Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil . |