Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually it tastes quite potatoey and presumably rather leeky as well I should imagine . |
| 2 | The story today is rather less critical as Lotus reports significant gains across the Windows software scene , with , for example , Freelance Graphics increasing its market share from 35% to 59% in just one month . |
| 3 | Consequently , he started looking rather less convincing as self-appointed bard of the downtrodden , with 1978 's Blue Valentine and 1980 's Heartattack & Vine verging precariously on self parody . |
| 4 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 5 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm obviously bitterly disappointed as any Test defeat is bad . |
| 7 | A restrained virility that boded ill for anyone so incredibly foolish as to even think of challenging his authority . |
| 8 | Women are to be found in the lower grades in large numbers but are much less common as the grades go up , until at the highest grade of all there are no women at all . |
| 9 | Submarine fans are much less important as potential reservoirs in the Z2 Carbonate than the platform or mud wedge carbonates , because they are only rarely developed . |
| 10 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 11 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 12 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 13 | The test kit had a range of pH6 to 8 , but the reading of my existing tank was obviously below 6 as it went instantly yellow . |
| 14 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 15 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 16 | I know we crea we 've created the stand up between them in so much as s she blames for what 's happened t to her . |
| 17 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 18 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 19 | She 's so fucking easy as well . |
| 20 | ‘ How can you be so utterly selfish as to uproot the child from her home and school at this stage , when nothing has been finally decided by the court ? |
| 21 | Ranulf muttered indignantly against his strange master who dragged him across this wild country so different from the narrow streets of London and so utterly tedious as well . |
| 22 | But these choices are not seen as being so individually idiosyncratic as to make crime totally unpredictable or uncontrollable . |
| 23 | For Gauntlett 's product is that most impeccably British of all motor-cars ( not automobiles ) , the Aston Martin : a car so devastatingly English as to make Rolls-Bentleys seem like Hondas . |
| 24 | No first night in America , no guest appearance on Wogan , no live appearance on the Royal Variety Show has ever made me quite so pathologically crazed as that little radio show . |
| 25 | I should think people other people would be much more feel much more competent as well . |
| 26 | He readily admitted , ‘ As far as audiences go , I think I 'm much more famous as Madonna 's husband and as somebody who hits photographers than as an actor . ’ |
| 27 | The prospect of genetic intervention is much more appealing as it gets to the core of the problem . |
| 28 | MAKING money has suddenly become much more profitable as recently-created countries wanting to establish their newly-won independence start issuing their own currency . |
| 29 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |
| 30 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |