Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 2 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 3 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 4 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
| 5 | At the end of the day PR is a people business and you are only as successful as the number of good people you have . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The line 's only as far as the gate . ’ |
| 7 | The back avenue was a secondary way from the house , only as wide as a street , it ran between a shrubbery and a park-like field until it reached the farmyard wall . |
| 8 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 9 | But remember , codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation 's power to enforce them . |
| 10 | The most stringent policy document advocating the best practice is only as good as the level of compliance achieved . |
| 11 | Well it 's only as good as the person putting it in . |
| 12 | A phone is only as good as the system it is plugged into . |
| 13 | Visits are only as good as the preparation made before them . |
| 14 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 15 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 16 | The indemnity is , of course , only as good as the vendor and , if appropriate , its guarantor . |
| 17 | The solicitor 's defence is only as good as the quality of the information in the written documents . |
| 18 | ‘ A grammar or secondary school is only as good as the quality of primary education and the girls who are coming into the school . |
| 19 | Any guidebook is only as good as the input of information into it , and this is an opportunity to make sure the guide is up to date and accurate . |
| 20 | Though I do not doubt the considerable advances made in certain ultrasound centres in Britain and the United States in the use of fetal ultrasonography as an adjunct to prenatal diagnosis of fetal trisomy 21 , the evidence in the Down 's syndrome register is only as good as the information provided to the cytogenetics centres from people requesting karyotyping . |
| 21 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 22 | The strength of your business is only as good as the strength of its suppliers and customers , and the relationship will need to be a much closer , less adversarial one . |
| 23 | A racing driver 's only as good as the car he drives ; even when he 's the prodigious Johnny Herbert . |
| 24 | Note that the orbit is only as large as the Sun 's diameter and in addition the separation r of the stars varies by a factor over any orbit . |
| 25 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 26 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 27 | And a heart is only as big as the love it holds : |
| 28 | Well that 's , it was n't a obviously as high as the flood twenty seven years ago . |
| 29 | The English aristocracy have , it seems , rather less to answer for than the French ; they are merely as redundant as the dinosaur . |
| 30 | Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded . |