Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
2 | As long as we stay this dose to the hole we have to keep the rocket thrust going . ’ |
3 | We are humbled and brought low by them , but the spirit of man — and I now have to say woman — and the freedoms that we enjoy lie within our grasp as long as we hold this House . |
4 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
5 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
6 | Kate was silent as she digested this fact . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Mark claims that all the people were astonished as they witnessed this contest between good and evil . |