Example sentences of "[det] be [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 2 | This is hardly surprising as establishing new artists is a costly and lengthy process . |
| 3 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 4 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 5 | This is as difficult as trying to square a circle . |
| 6 | Personally I do n't think this is as ethical as removing the bolts prior to a repeat ascent , but it will undoubtedly please many people . |
| 7 | This was as surprising as discovering blood from an unsuspected wound . |
| 8 | For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort . |
| 9 | Occasionally , a student — perhaps in mathematics or logic — can be seen actually to make a contribution to the research literature , but that is so rare as to appear precocious . |
| 10 | He worked at Underwood Pit when they were came to this district and then they came into the Newthorpe Common district and er and then er we moved from Newthorpe Common and he went to Williamthorpe for a short while , only from erm probably eighteen months to two years , that 's as much as did there . |
| 11 | That 's as much as to tell me that you would be hovering round me like a vulture , waiting till the breath was out of my body , that you might go and marry someone else . ’ |
| 12 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |