Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drama makes an important contribution towards realising the overall aims of English as set out in chapter 2 . |
| 2 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 3 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |
| 4 | The clergy were not so much wicked or immodest as bound up too closely in the social hierarchy to have much direct contact with their parishioners . |
| 5 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 6 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 7 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 9 | I find comparisons at the moment impossible to contemplate as this reading is so shattering as to rule out any other . |
| 10 | Leo was probably fun to be with , a great companion , a good friend , she thought , then gave a wry chagrined smile as he turned towards her as though he 'd been aware of her presence all along — and she might have known he would n't do anything so obliging as to walk off . |
| 11 | Often it will be found that a text starts with the B signatures , the preliminaries rarely being so obliging as to add up to a complete signature . |
| 12 | Errors of principle — A purchase treated as a sale ; a receipt treated as a payment ; returns in treated as returns out ; an asset treated as an expense . |
| 13 | And the Borough Council considers that the need for the new roads has been fully justified as set out in the County Council 's assessment . |
| 14 | And , as any football-mad kid knows , there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season 's kit . |
| 15 | This latter character may not be particularly useful as pointed out by Clark ( 1970 ) . |
| 16 | In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it . |
| 17 | Rémy of Pertuis had as good as made up his mind to leave that day , but the arrival of the earl of Leicester caused him to think again , and countermand his orders to Bénezet and Daalny to begin packing . |
| 18 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 19 | Worse still , by the end of May there were indications that for the first time German losses might be exceeding those of the French ; within a week one completely new brigade had been as good as wiped out . |
| 20 | He gets a lot of noes that way , but a remarkable number of yesses , and when he did n't register an instant negative from me , I was as good as signed up . |
| 21 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 22 | They are made to measure and supplied pre-glazed — double or triple — with all the fittings and screws in place ready for immediate , trouble-free installation ( as long as measuring up has been done carefully , and the hole for the window is square ) . |
| 23 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |
| 24 | Mr Williams : ‘ Although you did not , would you expect that some people seeing young children on the motorway would be so concerned as to slow down ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , for Sir John was so unwise as to hold up Isabel 's beauty — and she was so very beautiful , the image , apart from the hair , of Benedict — against poor Araminta . |
| 26 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 28 | That avenue is now regarded in some quarters as not nearly as strategic as cuddling up with Novell , despite the disappointment USL employees might feel in not being able to cash in their stock and options that way . |
| 29 | True , it is a risk — many a spring in Britain has thrown a frost at us in April , even May is not unknown — but you are not going to be so daft as to muffle up and go out to do the pruning just because the date or some idiot article says the time is right . |
| 30 | And social services as may be required to ensure the welfare of the aged as set out in the declaration of intent . |