Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 2 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 3 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 4 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 5 | The driver and conductor made up for them by shouting and singing , and the little bus itself was extremely noisy as it rattled along the bumpy streets . |
| 6 | Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction . |
| 7 | When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony . |
| 8 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 9 | In simple language , the signal becomes vastly more powerful as it passes through this type of network . |
| 10 | However , predicting what proportion of the total population the older age groups ( or any other subset of the population ) will represent is more problematic as it depends upon the number of children future generations produce . |
| 11 | Similarly , the term " English " is not as inert or technically neutral as it appears in the recommendations . |
| 12 | The prospect of genetic intervention is much more appealing as it gets to the core of the problem . |
| 13 | It was the most successful tour England had ever made , all the more satisfying as it began with them being written off as a bunch of no-hopers . |
| 14 | ‘ My dear Paige , at my age , nothing seems as hopeless as it does to you . |
| 15 | Erm I think probably yes the debate has been probably as extensive as it needs to be . |
| 16 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 17 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 18 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 19 | But like every other species , including the human , the bee is just as clever as it needs to be . |
| 20 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 21 | In reality , the calculation is not as simple as it appears in ( 8.33 ) . |
| 22 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 23 | Will it be as easy as it looks on paper ? |
| 24 | I do n't think anything is as easy as it looks on paper in football . |
| 25 | The interpretation of this measure of consistency is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight . |
| 26 | Just as quick as it goes through a Crunchie . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was n't as cold as it seemed to her distorted senses . |
| 28 | If the housing market in southern England remains as tight as it stands in 1988 , then the problems created by recent trends in social polarization are unlikely to diminish at any of the three scales treated in this chapter . |
| 29 | Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy . |
| 30 | if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball . |