Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | But as much as Pauly the character reflects LA youth 's sun-dried degeneracy , the man himself is a driven individual . |
4 | It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that the experts are still arguing over something as basic as how a cat purrs . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Er and er yes , in in as far as where the excess , access is n't |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |