Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adj] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are thus almost as dear as they were at the end of 1989 , when the p/e ratio peaked at 18 before a nearly successful coup sank the stockmarket and all who sailed in her . |
| 2 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |
| 3 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 4 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |
| 5 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 6 | In the centre of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , crossing the torrent of the Aldudes , is a gorgeous old humpbacked bridge ( a ‘ donkey 's back ’ bridge the French say ) , that is no longer of much use to anybody except to make you ask whether modern bridges need to be quite so drably horizontal as they invariably are . |
| 7 | With the latter , each case , each murder , was a duel with a murderer who , of necessity , had to be almost as brilliantly clever as they were themselves . |
| 8 | The problem in the Highlands is that the population has radically decreased and hence schools are no longer as viable as they once were . |
| 9 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 10 | Mr Rea says jobs at universities are no longer as secure as they once were . |
| 11 | However , they have become increasingly collectable in recent years and are no longer as inexpensive as they were ( See pl.23 ) . |
| 12 | Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem . |
| 13 | And certainly the percentages very never as high as they were on other buildings , were they ? |