Example sentences of "they [am/are] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 2 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |
| 3 | They are as mysterious as the Etruscans , the pre-Roman occupants of the Italian peninsula . |
| 4 | They are as boring as a civil servants ' convention , but for armagnac , they are ideal . |
| 5 | The man in the street accepts that all French politicians are in it together and , as a result , charges of corruption seem not to be followed up , even when they are as spectacular as the current scandal concerning the dirty financing of President Mitterrand 's election campaign in 1988 . |
| 6 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 7 | They begin to give the colour back to Isaac 's cheeks , but they are as far as the storyteller will go . |
| 8 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 9 | Criminals are not supposed to reveal that they are as human as the rest of us ! |
| 10 | In 1862 , The Times wrote : ‘ Whole tracts of country , once as fertile as the fields of Devonshire , have been swept by deadly blights till they are as barren as the Great Salt Lake . ’ |
| 11 | When they 're gathered together they go ‘ Phwoaaaargghh ! ! ! ’ a lot — like most lads do — and generally they 're as right-on as a picket-line crossing , strike-breaking blackleg . |
| 12 | I know they 're as good as a house almost . |
| 13 | Already old pals to a legion of live fans , it wo n't be long before they 're as big as The Levellers , except they 'll be excellent as well — catchy , bright , funny , infectious , everything The Levs are not , really . |
| 14 | They 're as big as the Sun — some are even bigger . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 're as hard as the Scots and as unforgiving as the Irish . |