Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would never forget the first time , balanced high on the steep roof of the house , huddled from the wind against the chimney-stack , Fenna 's great shadow hovering over her , although Fenna had surely not been so hugely vast then as he was now , his shadow had not obliterated the stars , threatening their very existence . |
| 2 | But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I . |
| 3 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 4 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 5 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 6 | Now this was not as magnificent then as it is today . |
| 7 | Not as cold not as cold yet as I thought it was going to be . |
| 8 | It 's not as bad now as it used to be |
| 9 | I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ? |
| 10 | Koltai suggests everything appalling in modern urban life : The Wimpy-precinct existence which one realises with something like delayed shock is just as inescapable now as it was in the Fifties when Billy first sought refuge in his compulsive make believe . |
| 11 | It appeared just as impregnable yesterday as he survived the first two sets without being broken . |
| 12 | I heard the hon. Gentleman at 6 o'clock this morning and he was just as bad then as he was this afternoon . |
| 13 | Some will want to argue that King is simplifying reality in assuming a single decision-taking point at the end of the project and a neat sequential series of steps , but his message about the limited scope of finance theory is just as important now as it was in 1975 . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that unambiguous communication is just as important now as it was during the cold war , and perhaps even more important ? |
| 15 | He looks just as unhinged today as he did then , poor lad . ’ |
| 16 | Between these two well-known and reasonably well-documented cultures lay one that is , in many ways , still as mysterious now as it was over two thousand years ago . |
| 17 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 18 | But unlike the brachiopods the molluscs are probably as diverse today as they have ever been . |
| 19 | These homemade videos are often as rough-looking inside as they are on the outside . |
| 20 | She 's far too valuable just as she is , even if her sixth sense did n't mention Epping Forest until after our crime reporter did . |
| 21 | And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now . |
| 22 | ‘ People are n't as poor now as they were years ago , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 24 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 26 | But it 's not quite as cold today as it was yest , you know during the week cos it 's then erm |
| 27 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 28 | Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches . |
| 29 | Eglantine also said that children are always the first to suffer and that is certainly as true today as it was then which means that the Save The Children Fund 's work is needed now as much as it was then . |
| 30 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |