Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minch had long ago taught Creggan to ignore this altogether as their food was never good and an eagle could only come to harm if he got involved with people in that way . |
| 2 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 3 | ‘ But it is n't , ’ she cried , frantic now as her words brought home the enormity of what was happening . |
| 4 | Changes in social and commercial conditions , and changes in the moral values of the community , mean that the Courts will not always find the same reasons for the enforcement of promises to be good today as their forbears did ; equally it is likely that they will often find good reasons for the enforcement of promises where their predecessors did not . |
| 5 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 6 | It was as familiar almost as my own , but I could n't pin a face to it . |
| 7 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 8 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |