Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 2 | It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so . |
| 3 | You confirm that you are acting in this matter as principal and not as agent or broker for any other party . |
| 4 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 5 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 6 | While interactionists admit the existence of roles , they regard them as vague and imprecise and therefore as open to negotiation . |
| 7 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |
| 8 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll be the death of me , Mr Loveitt , dammee if you wo n't , ’ she said , her voice as loud and hard as her laugh . |
| 10 | Lara , sweeping frequently , made a bright 50 , then Richardson — booed loud and long as he came in for his supposed anti Jamaican selections and his team 's poor World Cup performances — made 30 of a stand of 106 with Simmons . |
| 11 | However , agile and fast as they are , they are sometimes outwitted by sea-lions who lie near the breaking surf off the beaches and come dashing ashore to grab a bird in the ‘ danger zone ’ of the shallow water . |
| 12 | She now placed her large square hands on the table and leant towards him , and her voice was low and hard as she said , ‘ Well , what 's the choice ? |
| 13 | ‘ It is not easy to hang a fine suit from shoulders so broad and straight as yours , Major . ’ |
| 14 | It was sometimes described as Congregationalist and sometimes as Baptist and did not insist on adult baptism . |
| 15 | Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result . |
| 16 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 17 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 18 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 19 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 20 | They had to be unloaded and distributed as fast and safely as possible . |
| 21 | The chance that a random conglomeration of whale cells would swim , let alone swim as fast and efficiently as a whale actually does swim , is negligible . |
| 22 | In a more recent book he suggests that the gospel was also made available as widespread and cheaply as possible by a novel process . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh come now , Bill , Oxford senior common rooms are full of people quite as untidy and generally as odd as Gerhard . |
| 24 | Hence , class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society . |
| 25 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 26 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 27 | She looked straight in front of her , and her face was as cold and hard as marble . |
| 28 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 29 | And I 'm out here , where there are n't any proper walls to the world , and the water goes cold and hard as glass some mornings , and the ventilation and heating systems are quite shockingly out of control . |
| 30 | His voice as cold and hard as polished steel , Michele said , ‘ It was you who suggested I could have her eating out of my hand … ’ |