Example sentences of "[conj] as [adj] [conj] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 2 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 3 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 4 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 5 | His writing is larger than mine , I note , and as fine as his hair . |
| 6 | Thomas Sachs was as good and as generous as his word . |
| 7 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 8 | His Gluck Iphigenie this summer , first of a planned Drottningholm cycle , was self-consciously unobtrusive , almost rough in its stage manners — and as unexciting as his Don Giovanni from the same stable seen in Brighton . |
| 9 | But as common as his sisters were , the one who had died had become quite wealthy through a progressive small business . |