Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was real exciting , too , but I do n't think anything was as exciting as making that first record . ’ |
| 2 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 3 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 4 | Congestion with throbbing all over and burning ; blood vessels throb and pulsate as do local inflammations ; hammering pains in the head if they move . |
| 5 | While for analytical ( and polemical ) purposes these ideal types serve a useful purpose , it is arguable that states and processes are so conceptually and practically interdependent as to make naive any description or explanation of education exclusively in terms of one rather than the other . |
| 6 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 7 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 8 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 10 | He arrived at night to find the strand ‘ covered in bodies ’ charred beyond recognition , but identifiable as wearing British uniforms . |
| 11 | These goals never are ( never can be ) so explicit as to exclude all subjectivity in interpreting performance against them . |
| 12 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 13 | That adjourned meeting should be so fixed as to allow those who had not timeously lodged their applications or objections to have these applications or objections timeously lodged for the adjourned meeting of the board . |
| 14 | The nationality requirement , along with the domicile and residence requirements , was so restrictive as to make ineligible for consideration as ‘ qualified companies ’ many publicly quoted companies or banks on the International Stock Exchange in London . |
| 15 | Ruth 's hair was straight as falling black water . |
| 16 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 17 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 18 | Yes , towards — we 're getting back towards our original man in the graveyard — yes , I mean I 'd like to say that you 're saying particularly to Reverend Flatman what should he or his parishioners be doing to help this man — it 's not as easy as saying that somebody individually should be offering him a room in their house because his problems are far more manifold and deep seated than that . |
| 19 | ‘ To us it 's as simple as writing good tunes and having fun , ’ he begins weakly . |
| 20 | The snags they sort out can be as simple as making sure a contractor understands plans properly to having to re-design equipment found to need modification when it is being installed . |
| 21 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 22 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 23 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 24 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 25 | And we ourselves will instinctively be perceived as ‘ anti-Christian ’ , as writers engaged in a fully fledged crusade which pits us , as militant adversaries , against the ecclesiastical establishment — as if we were personally bent on toppling the edifice of Christendom ( and so naive as to think such a feat possible ) . |
| 26 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 27 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 28 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 29 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 30 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |