Example sentences of "[adj] as [pers pn] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 2 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 3 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 5 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 6 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |
| 7 | Yeah the actual as you did successful sales course we can note your comments down okay , I 'll give you a set of these now , write the sales person 's name across there and write your comments , criticisms , what was done well , what was done badly , what could be improved on and it 's his role play cycle , give this to the sales person . |
| 8 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 9 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |