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 | Er er and there are i implications for you in as much that my simplistic idea would be that everything in terms of a subject would be on a separate sheet so that |
| 23 | They 're part of a European team working on a nuclear fusion project , but claim they 're paid only half as much as their continental colleagues . |
| 24 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 25 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 26 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 27 | For the common people , as much as their political representatives , it was also the ultimate affirmation of the rightness of the American way , of the moral ascendancy of the United States . |
| 28 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 29 | It is this as much as their stubborn stupidity and iron-hard muscle which makes Trolls very hard to fight . |
| 30 | If the Spanish youngsters enjoy the adventure playground as much as their English counterparts , there should be no problem . |