Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
2 | Somehow , you can sing ‘ Goodbye ’ till the cows come home , and it comes up as fresh as ever every time . |
3 | The new car will bristle with safety hardware , including side intrusion bars and airbags as standard and possibly a roll-over bar for the convertible . |
4 | But as much as Pauly the character reflects LA youth 's sun-dried degeneracy , the man himself is a driven individual . |
5 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
6 | And if a patient 's really ill they try to keep it as smooth and fast a ride as possible . |
7 | An account of professional courses — at least with respect to PGCE — is in principle just as complex because even the advent of accreditation has not enforced uniformity . |
8 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
9 | Now the quality obviously is not as good as either the flat or fully-fashioned and that 's why the Americans have a reputation for not but that 's the reason , productivity . |
10 | His dummy , leading on the story of a northern factory which was allegedly poisoning its workers , had been marked down as brilliant and just the sort of hard-hitting stuff the paper wanted . |
11 | De Klerk did not significantly address the ANC 's demands , but described as defamatory and false the claim that he was conducting a campaign of political murder , and defended the security forces , which , he declared , operated with impartiality . |
12 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
13 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
14 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
15 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
16 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
17 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
18 | Target Date can be a specific date or as general as just the month or year in which you hope that goal will be achieved . |
19 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |