Example sentences of "to [be] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human beings are expected to be as mechanical as the musak . |
| 2 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 3 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 4 | The Complete Hedgehog looks set to be the first of many and to be as successful as the series of books on wildlife Les has already bought out . |
| 5 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |
| 6 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 7 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 8 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 9 | Because a colour system requires three dots ( one for each primary ) at each point on the screen , resolution tends not to be as good as a similarly-sized monochrome display . |
| 10 | There would be somebody saying , ‘ Well I 'm glad to see the back of last year , ’ and someone else wishing the new year to be as good as the last . |
| 11 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 12 | This will be wonderful in the bookshops as she has returned to the ghost story , and although it is reputed not to be as good as The Woman in Black , its sales are going to be . |
| 13 | Determined to be as good as the regulars , he practised on his own at a pub in Balham . |
| 14 | For such Catholic sixth forms or sixth form colleges , therefore , the challenge is not simply to be as good as the alternative but to exceed it in reputation and appeal . |
| 15 | Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself . |
| 16 | Erm the the Kuomintang , make no mistake about it , were committed to a national revolution erm an and therefore they were revolutionary , they were , they were claiming to be as revolutionary as the communists . |
| 17 | Set to be as ubiquitous as the Body Shop or Habitat in years to come , the Japanese bits 'n' bobs shop Muji is opening its second London store this month at 39 Shelton St , Covent Garden . |
| 18 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 19 | However , contemplation appears to be as far as the idea ever got . |
| 20 | Since " murder " is a strong term and some killings are not seen to be as heinous as the archetypal murder case , the retention of a second form of criminal killing is probably a good idea . |
| 21 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |
| 22 | It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill . |
| 23 | There is a tiny hole at the end , and if you go into this hole ( you 'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so , and they are minute : thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig ) , you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls . |
| 24 | That means impressive refinement on the move , complementing an excellent ride , said over poor surfaces to be as composed as a Mercedes 230E . |
| 25 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |
| 26 | In Saussure 's original exposition , signifier and signified , though distinct and only arbitrarily related , were supposed to be as indivisible as the two sides of a piece of paper . |
| 27 | Privately , not all of Poland 's Communist leaders believe the pro-democracy forces at the Party 's local level to be as strong as the survey indicated . |
| 28 | This option might have to be taken up in the future when the V-bombers reached the end of their operational lives , unless the TSR 2 turned out to be as effective as the RAF hoped , and was able to extend the life of the airborne nuclear deterrent indefinitely . |
| 29 | It 's said to be as effective as the pill and experts say it 'll widen the choice for women . |
| 30 | Do n't expect it to be as powerful as a conventional grill though , and it 's likely to operate only with the door closed . |