Example sentences of "is [adv] as [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just as beneficial as having animal protein . |
| 2 | I think antagonising people is just as good as making people happy . ’ |
| 3 | But these are conclusions based on well-resourced day-care centres , and generalization to , say , the child minders described by Jackson , is just as dangerous as generalizing from residential care . |
| 4 | Regular physical activity or exercise is just as important as eating the right type of food . |
| 5 | Protecting the body against overheating is just as important as preventing hypothermia . |
| 6 | ‘ They can become a bit cartoony , and making people chuckle is just as important as raising an issue . |
| 7 | ‘ They can become a bit cartoony , and making people chuckle is just as important as raising an issue . |
| 8 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 9 | To ask " How many substances ? " is just as ungrammatical as asking " How many rednesses ? " . |
| 10 | For some people , staying the same weight is just as difficult as losing weight . |
| 11 | Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day . |
| 12 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 13 | Punch lace ( as I shall call it ) is almost as easy as knitting Fair Isle . |
| 14 | Calling St Petersburg is almost as easy as calling St Albans |
| 15 | Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult , but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object . |
| 16 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 17 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
| 18 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |