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Example sentences of "as [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	Motion is possible even without empty space ; so long as things simultaneously move into each other 's places , motion is as possible in a plenum as in a crowd .
3	You were as indistinguishable from a distance as one of these blades of grass , and who was to say more important ?
4	Be as cautious with a dog as you would with a child .
5	Blackberry was as much at a loss as he had been himself .
6	Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him .
7	‘ Not as much of a fool as I tried to be .
8	This is not as much of a constraint as one might imagine .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	‘ My flat is in almost as much of a mess as the office .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	Maisie 's conversation was n't quite as much of a surprise as it should have been .
16	Is not feminism just as much of a bias as sexism ?
17	She writes : ‘ At nearly forty , ageism seemed to be as much of a problem as sexism ’ .
18	I just did n't know it was as much of a tribute as it was until I was told … rather abruptly !
19	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 .
20	A subsidiary raid would be carried out on Bagoush airfield to create as much of a diversion as possible .
21	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 .
22	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 .
23	It was difficult to be part of the life of a man who was as much of a loner as at any time .
24	Even so , he was as much of a traveller as his friend peter the Venerable .
25	‘ 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 .
26	We are at as much of a disadvantage as the team we are playing , ’ he added .
27	‘ F— off mate ! they 're as much of a joke as you are . ’
28	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 .
29	She had n't picked up as much of a lead as she 'd thought .
30	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 .