Example sentences of "[adj] was as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed this was as far as the couple had thought ; as though that would be it . |
| 2 | Stirling expostulated that this was as bad as the ‘ bloody English at M.E.H.Q. ’ , whereupon the general enquired as to his nationality . |
| 3 | My personal space-time was as dislocated as the impersonal one . |
| 4 | That was as far as the Washington consensus on European policy went . |
| 5 | The League of Nations and the Danzig Senate exchanged notes of protest , but that was as far as the League pursued the matter . |
| 6 | That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door . |
| 7 | That was as far as the books said you should go . |
| 8 | And then laughing , he looked at her and said , ‘ That was as good as a play . ’ |
| 9 | He felt for the words that should follow , the first step that was as hard as a death , or more truly , as hard as being born again . |
| 10 | He had looked , Henry thought , like a gigantic blue infant , a curious cross between cunning and naïveté , a representative of an England that was as dead as the gold standard . |