Example sentences of "as [det] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 2 | Blackberry was as much at a loss as he had been himself . |
| 3 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 4 | ‘ Not as much of a fool as I tried to be . |
| 5 | This is not as much of a constraint as one might imagine . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , there is just as much of a chance that you will win through your difficulties as there is of reaching the point of throwing in the towel . |
| 7 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 8 | Standing small and shaky before that vast desk , surrounded by all the trappings of success and power , I felt very helpless and the cigarette seemed about as much of a morale-builder as a pocket-handkerchief is a protection against a firing-squad . |
| 9 | ‘ My flat is in almost as much of a mess as the office . |
| 10 | The city was his home , and the Ruger , and the Khan Murjan restaurant , they were as much of a home as he was now at liberty to make for himself . |
| 11 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 12 | Maisie 's conversation was n't quite as much of a surprise as it should have been . |
| 13 | Is not feminism just as much of a bias as sexism ? |
| 14 | She writes : ‘ At nearly forty , ageism seemed to be as much of a problem as sexism ’ . |
| 15 | I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly ! |
| 16 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 17 | A subsidiary raid would be carried out on Bagoush airfield to create as much of a diversion as possible . |
| 18 | And yet the process for fixing expenditure allocations seems to be as much of a shambles as ever it was when you and Mr Heath were so concerned about it in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | The Independent goes on to illustrate that in our so-called classless society bad speech is today as much of a barrier as it was in Shaw 's time . |
| 20 | It was difficult to be part of the life of a man who was as much of a loner as at any time . |
| 21 | Even so , he was as much of a traveller as his friend peter the Venerable . |
| 22 | ‘ Make as much of a splash as you can and the fish will run in front of you , if there is any fish left in here that is . |
| 23 | We are at as much of a disadvantage as the team we are playing , ’ he added . |
| 24 | ‘ F— off mate ! they 're as much of a joke as you are . ’ |
| 25 | He would look after the government on as much of a care and maintenance basis as circumstances permitted , deciding only urgent matters and then only with Cabinet consent if this were possible . |
| 26 | She had n't picked up as much of a lead as she 'd thought . |
| 27 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 28 | I 'm not as much of a self-deluder as my fellow committee members . |
| 29 | He said he left for the thrill of a start-up rather than the tedium of maintenance , indicating Silicon Graphics , MIPS new master , did not consider making the MIPS chip a universal standard as much of a priority as Sun does the Sparc . |
| 30 | They you find yourself working in television and you realize you 're as much of a wanker as anyone else . |