Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fields were green and lush with pasture , the river Liffey flowed through land that was as rich as his Scottish farm was bleak and poor . |
| 2 | ‘ About as friendly as your average Scorpion , ’ she said wryly . |
| 3 | This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace . |
| 4 | One hand came up , cradling her face as he slanted his mouth over hers , softening the demand and yet deepening the kiss with a tender seduction that was as devastating as his initial urgency . |
| 5 | Charged solitons are not as mobile as their neutral counterparts . |
| 6 | The aim of the treatment is to keep the blood levels of this substance venial alanine as low as we possible can . |
| 7 | Yet as Andrew Palmer , deputy finance director at Legal & General Investments warned at the same conference , ‘ like all chains , Taurus is only going to be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 8 | With such fundamental changes involved , a business can only be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 9 | " Basil and Rosemary " — their names were as inseparable as their professional endeavours . |
| 10 | The enormous table around which the politburo was supposed to meet would have required the members to shout at each other across oak as old as their collective age . |
| 11 | It is n't their height but their shapely form that attracts discerning hillgoers , and since many of the tops are not included in tick lists — some of the Scottish ones do n't even get Corbett status — they tend not to be as popular as their loftier neighbours . |
| 12 | While not as popular as his Second Concerto ( what is ? ) , the First is a fine romantic work . |
| 13 | Not as funny as its box-office receipts might suggest |
| 14 | Receptionist Amanda France , 23 , said : ‘ It 's not as funny as his other films but I still laughed out loud . ’ |
| 15 | No lovemaking had ever been as erotic or as liberating as their half-illicit couplings on unyielding sand within yards of the crashing tide . |
| 16 | Though almost as crowded as her previous transport , the water-bus was a great deal more pleasant . |
| 17 | Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before . |
| 18 | CANADIAN Donovan Boucher 's fragile features are as deceptive as his piercing jab and his manner as cool as his fighting head . |
| 19 | Gillian Barge is splendid as Mrs Higgins — as splendid as her Burne-Jonesy gowns and her frizzy Pre-Raphaelite hair . |
| 20 | Zuckerman 's relationship with his brother Henry is , in contrast , often sanguinary , as gruesome as their respective operations . |
| 21 | However , another group of people have equally strongly held views , and for that reason it is not as easy as my hon. Friend would have the House believe to introduce legislation that would command total respect in the House . |
| 22 | That way I do n't appear as nervous as my skippety-hop heart . |
| 23 | Already many grass-roots activists in the US are attacking the biggest banks on issues as diverse as their continued business with South Africa , their indirect exploitation of the Third World 's people and environment , their systematic refusal to grant home loans in inner-city neighborhoods and their close ties to union-busting corporations . |
| 24 | Her face was as white as her long dress , and her dark hair lay over her shoulders . |
| 25 | Mungo 's retreat from the shed was as untidy as his forced entrance . |
| 26 | She warned fellow women workers that it was useless to address workingmen with ‘ plain commonplaces ’ ; what was needed was vivid and dramatic language : ‘ the men want strong meat , thoughts as racy as their own expressions ; they reject sweet pap fit for children . ’ |
| 27 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 28 | But our economy is still over twice as large as our closest competitor . |
| 29 | This causes the material to become very dense in parts , to rotate rapidly , and finally to collapse into smaller , opaque spheres as large as our solar system . |
| 30 | Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ We went up into a dining-room about as large as your blue room , where we had something given us to eat , and tea and coffee . ’ |