Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Donaldson supposed that he was in a stable but no , the smell was wrong , dry and musty and not nearly so strong as the fertile stink of horses . |
| 2 | On Tuesday Marion Tait was superbly tragic as the older sister , Karen Donovan full of spite as the jealous one , and Anita Landa fiercely repressive as the mother , while Joseph Cipolla gave due emphasis to the pelvic thrusts of which his role chiefly consists . |
| 3 | THERE 'S always a problem with solo wind and string chamber music — and none so acute as the balance of horn and violin . |
| 4 | Contradictions can be subsumed in something so unproblematic as the designation of places . |
| 5 | Therefore , perhaps Labour as the largest anti-Protection party , should be allowed to govern . |
| 6 | Robyn , whose legs felt suddenly weak as the adrenalin drained out of her , sat down . |
| 7 | Earn outs are becoming less and less popular as the disadvantages often outweigh the advantages . |
| 8 | The arms of the pelta-urn are taken only so high as the central lotus form . |
| 9 | Ironically , a Labour government would not have to be so generous as the Tories . |
| 10 | For who are so free as the sons of the waves ? … |
| 11 | He wanted to drink it and touch it and explore it , for , he thought , surely there can be nothing so magical as the moment when you know , beyond all question , that the woman you desire desires you in return . |
| 12 | Mr Hill said : ‘ He had six years experience as a mental nurse but had never seen anybody so violent as the defendant . ’ |
| 13 | They 're as smilingly elusive as his expression in the photograph on the boxes opposite me , as charmingly imprecise as the photograph itself . |
| 14 | Not that I expect you to be so baby-besotted as the people round here — with good cause , of course , as Ewan has to be a paragon ! |
| 15 | She had never seen anything so accomplished as the movements he made , or so perfect as the oval of his lips as he exhaled . |
| 16 | A combination is perhaps not quite so simple as the beginners first believe . |
| 17 | The story is highly symbolic as the action of anointing is Messianic . |
| 18 | The wider debate has , to some extent , tended to overshadow the resource management issue , which may be somewhat ironic as the resource management initiative , announced in 1986 , may well prove to be the most fundamental change of all . |
| 19 | The water guarding it does not look nearly so dangerous as the water behind it as a player comes down the hill debating whether to go for the green with his second shot . |
| 20 | She had never seen anything so ethereal as the scene that slid slowly past her eyes . |
| 21 | Insults so ferocious as the recipe for Sussex Layer Pancakes — why pick on Sussex ? |
| 22 | The last two years have seen a growth in awareness of many environmental issues , but none so obvious as the campaign to reduce harmful vehicle emissions , in particular lead . |
| 23 | Though highly questionable as the record of an actual historical event , this narrative attests to a very real anxiety on Herod 's part about the birth of Jesus : |
| 24 | The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , proposals for change will become less likely as the lessons of the recent attempts to break the mould of Conservative journalism sink in . |
| 26 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |
| 27 | The important point to grasp is that this magnitude will be nowhere near so large as the level of total spending . |
| 28 | So even the employed would have a need , but it might not be so urgent , but it might not be so urgent as the self-employed guy , whose gon na need money after how long ? |
| 29 | Mrs Helmsley , who began adult life selling cigarettes in a New York cinema , had become so unpopular as the details of her manners and penny-pinching management technique were exposed in court during her trial that her lawyers based an eleventh-hour appeal for mercy on her likely prison victimisation as a ‘ notorious , widely-reviled , vastly wealthy New York Jew . ’ |
| 30 | Although not nearly so cold as the ceramic tiles of the hall , the linoleum beneath his bare feet had a chill that seemed to creep right through his body . |