Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 32 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
| 33 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 34 | In the case of humans — to the physical factors or the environment , the ideological environment must be added , because a idea is just as valid as a kick in the teeth ; ideas are actually more important stimuli to the nervous system than are other types of stimuli ; ideas are , or induce , emotions that evoke energy in the nervous system . ’ |
| 35 | Oh I see what you mean , no I do n't think he 'll come home as bright as a button , somehow or other |
| 36 | Applications should be made as early as possible as a decision from HCIMA is normally required prior to enrolling on a programme of studies . |
| 37 | He switched off the lights and opened the curtains ; the night was still as black as a stone . |
| 38 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 39 | Her own feelings swung so violently between attraction and a very real fear and hate of what he 'd forced her to do that she was still as prickly as a porcupine in his presence , unless they were talking about work . |
| 40 | ‘ Well , you are still as slim as a reed — coltish , I believe your father used to say — you still have the same intriguing green eyes and those slanting eyebrows … ’ |
| 41 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 42 | By that time — possibly as little as a year and a half after Jesus 's death — they must already have been widespread and numerous , because Paul , acting on behalf of the established Sadducee priesthood and armed with warrants from the High Priest , undertakes to hunt them out as far away as Damascus . |
| 43 | This young girl usually had all these qualities , though now , in the last months of her pregnancy , she was hardly as slim as a reed . |
| 44 | He 's good , he 's brilliant , and he 's probably as sound as a bell . |
| 45 | His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun . |
| 46 | She 's also as thin as a rake . |
| 47 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 48 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 49 | For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone . |
| 50 | To be locked inextricably in the overhang would have been nearly as disastrous as a dismasting . |
| 51 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 52 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 53 | His dick stood up as stiff as a poker , but he felt no embarrassment , only lust . |
| 54 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 55 | White as a sheet , and holding his arms out as rigid as a shelf . |
| 56 | I generally prefer hot pineapple desserts , often as simple as a sponge steamed pudding with crushed pineapple in the sponge and much more in the base . |
| 57 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 58 | Victoria , I 've told you already , he appeals to me about as much as a piece of furniture . |
| 59 | He turned back down the corridor , which was now as dark as a catacomb . |
| 60 | Firelight was now as gentle as a lamb , and would lie down and sleep beside him instead of pacing round her box all night . |