Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 7 ) Whenever you come across a mortgage or a charge put " M " prominently in the margin ; tick this as you come to any subsequent statutory receipt or other discharge . |
| 2 | I wish I could forget two London concerts he gave shortly before he died , but I prefer to remember him through performances as brilliant , powerful and exciting as we have on this set . ( ) |
| 3 | Of course people do not become frenzied quite as readily in 1993 as they did in 1919 , but with the assistance of one of Edinburgh 's premiere restaurants , The Witchery , The Scotsman and the House of Sandeman have devised an evening which should enthuse even the most jaded citizen . |
| 4 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 5 | Furthermore , during production the guitars are left to acclimatise at various stages , so the wood settles down even further as it metamorphoses into musical instruments . |
| 6 | Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water . |
| 7 | Her limbs were unsteady as she padded on bare feet , staggering a little , towards the door , oblivious to the fact that she was dressed only in a thin nightgown , that her half-combed hair flared untidily about her shoulders . |
| 8 | Nathan 's face tightened in a wince and he muttered something unintelligible as she smoothed on some antiseptic cream . |
| 9 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 10 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 11 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 12 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 13 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 15 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 16 | Then a division can trade as much as it wants with that market at the market price . |
| 17 | Then a division can trade as much as it wants with that market at the market price |
| 18 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 19 | and that 's not counted in your , in your calories , you can just eat that , it 's all free so you can eat as much as you like of that . |
| 20 | Marvellous value in the restaurant : as much as you like of cold and hot dishes , gravadlax and roast beef , for £8.60 . |
| 21 | Happily , many drinks are calorie-free or near enough not to matter , and you can drink as much as you like of these ( see Chapter 11 and the Drinks Calorie Chart ) . |
| 22 | Credit cards also allow you to convert only just as much as you need into local currencies . |
| 23 | Lydia felt strongly that the author of the universe probably thought much as she did about sexual matters . |
| 24 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 25 | They 're woven as you see on thirty six inch wide hand-looms . |
| 26 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 27 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 28 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 29 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 30 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |