Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were kids , were n't we , and about as unrealistic as only kids can be ! |
| 2 | It was Saturday , and the long street was still , empty as only Glasgow can be during the summer , a stage set patrolled by a solitary policeman . |
| 3 | To date , Washington has amassed career earnings of $512,272 , ( 7/4/92 ) , a figure which demonstrates to others who might be thinking of following in his footsteps that tennis can be as lucrative as either baseball or basketball . |
| 4 | Q&A is your best bet for simplicity and ease of use , but beware ; the word processing side is by no means as sophisticated as either WordStar or WordPerfect . |
| 5 | However , Q&A is by no means as sophisticated as either WordPerfect or WordStar . |
| 6 | Mr Darby himself , a professionally miserable man in his late sixties , handed Billykins down from the car and into the chapel and , as the mourners crowded in after her , as politely unaggressive as only mourners can be , there was a real , though muted feeling of loss in the air . |
| 7 | Are you tired as well Martin ? |
| 8 | A little French is useful as neither Eric nor Jerome speaks much English , but it is not vital : Jerome 's colleague Dominic speaks good English , and will translate . |
| 9 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |
| 10 | it 's more than double as much people who is today going by train than before . |
| 11 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 12 | Available as both saloon and fastback , the Rover 820 Si 16v is designed to beat the system on two counts . |
| 13 | As far as actually Pebble Mill the programme . |
| 14 | And Surtees Cook himself , as loving as ever Mr Browning was to her mistress . |
| 15 | And the tears starting up again , and the boys quiet and solemn as only boys can be when there 's a Disaster in the house and they 're short on Information . |
| 16 | That 's nice as well Tracy . |
| 17 | Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’ |
| 18 | He learned , too , how the soil became damper and less resonant as both species gradually abdicated before the tattered white willows which marched thirstily alongside the streams that tumbled towards the river . |
| 19 | It is important to note that these young men were not so much-pro-Japanese or anti-British as intensely Burman . |
| 20 | ‘ Why ’ and ‘ Rewind ’ are elastic up-tempo tunes , ‘ I Love Your Face ’ is as shamelessly sweet as only Smokey can be and ‘ Rack Me Back ’ is his most delicious slow-groove tune in years , reminiscent of a Bobby Bland set piece . |
| 21 | Of these , Paris was the most significant as both Laura and Bernard had always loved France , yet were terrified of it . |
| 22 | Realistic as ever skipper Peter Wilson will not accede to the pundits who say the championship is his already . |