Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a couple , they appear as ‘ babes in the wood ’ , helpless and hopeless together as they would be on their own , beset by the awfulness of everyone else . |
| 2 | Well yes anything like that especially as it should be the shopping area . |
| 3 | These homemade videos are often as rough-looking inside as they are on the outside . |
| 4 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 5 | The law , she thinks , is strong enough as it stands . |
| 6 | it up again here , so I did n't mi wish to discuss it like this so as I said it 's gon na be twelve months ' time . |
| 7 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 8 | What he was thinking of doing was risky enough as it was . |
| 9 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 10 | This is my command , love one another just as I love you . |
| 11 | Sorvino had every warning light on the car operating except for the headlamp flash , and he pumped this now as he was forced to slow behind the blockade . |
| 12 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 13 | Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did . |
| 14 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 15 | This very popular music with its haunting , melancholy and often monotonous melodies is sung in Madeira but has never become as popular here as it is in Portugal . |
| 16 | We are committed to ensuring that this reputation remains as sound tomorrow as it is today . |
| 17 | Mushy peas are believed to have originated in the North and remain as popular today as they have ever been . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 19 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 20 | Similarly , things can be inseparable even as they are distinguishable , as water = H20 . |
| 21 | It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues . |
| 22 | She was not otherwise positively ill-looking , though anxious , meagre , of a muddy complexion , and looking as old again as she really was . |
| 23 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 24 | Lord Quinton could never have imagined that in the columns of the Library Association Record in 1990 someone would suggest , only half jokingly as we shall see , that the librarian 's motto should be ‘ When in Doubt , Chuck it Out ’ . |
| 25 | He who does what is right , is righteous just as he |
| 26 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 28 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 29 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 30 | Recognise that this is a form of self-importance — that everyone is perfect just as they are . |