Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise . |
| 2 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 3 | She thought that this view was perhaps not as beautiful as a view of Blackmoor Vale , which she knew so well . |
| 4 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 5 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 6 | For many , the only alternative rural accommodation may be m. a caravan , seasonally almost as expensive as a holiday investment home . |
| 7 | The fifteen-year period is merely half as ridiculous as the thirty-year period . |
| 8 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 9 | whilst the group who have made the move from the hospital to the community are not typical of the hospital population — they are generally not as dependent as the average person in hospital — they are certainly much more typical than those people who are moving out of hospital elsewhere in England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 10 | If you start throwing fragments of aeroplanes into heaps , the odds of your happening to hit upon exactly the same arrangement of junk twice are just about as low as the odds of your throwing together a working airliner . |
| 11 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 12 | ‘ His expression is just about as dreary as the weather . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ intermediate ’ zoned system is approximately twice as effective as the standard in-rack system . |
| 14 | It should be noted that this concept of study skills was still not as broad as the full-blown information skills approach nominated in the proposal document , and was seen as achievable by one of a number of means which the committee considered . |
| 15 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 16 | The Pole turned to stare out of the window , his expression once again as bleak as the sky outside . |
| 17 | But , of course , by that time the bird — which was probably just as frightened as the child — had flown off . |
| 18 | Any birthday celebrations always seem to be over as swiftly as they begin , and the anticipation is probably just as important as the event itself , but a pressed flower picture can serve as a lovely memento . |
| 19 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 20 | Fossilized orang-utan teeth — most of what zoologists know of ape evolution comes from the study of fossil teeth — reveal that half a million years ago the orang 's ancestors were far bigger and probably twice as heavy as the modern animal . |
| 21 | Nearly half as old as the Store . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most appealing has been the idea that the deficit is really not as large as the official figures suggest ( because of gross inadequacies in the data ) . |
| 23 | Confronting and accepting the reason for the tension is often the best way of dealing with it , since if you look logically at the cause it is often not as bad as the imagination would suggest . |
| 24 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 25 | Applications should be made as early as possible as a decision from HCIMA is normally required prior to enrolling on a programme of studies . |
| 26 | As some of the various meetings , especially the progress meetings , are likely to be attended by all parties it is necessary to arrange for the booking of boardrooms and associated facilities as early as possible as the availability of rooms of sufficient size will be restricted . |
| 27 | ‘ The professional politicians are now nearly as numerous as the teachers of one sort or another who have traditionally become Labour MPs . ’ |
| 28 | In terms of ‘ carrying efficiency ’ , the bicycle is roughly twice as efficient as the car , the bus seven times and surface rapid rail twelve times as efficient . |
| 29 | Trax costs about twice as much as a conventional walkway . |
| 30 | And he sees the promo-tional side of playing for Leeds as almost as important as the game itself . |