Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | So that I think , had the subject been injustice , it would have just been just as er , exciting as justice , fact or fiction . |
2 | A policeman assured her that she had no need to worry as her husband would soon be home as would the others . |
3 | News can not just be soon as information about events that is transmitted to the public in some unproblematic way ; in a very real sense the news is manufactured . |
4 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
5 | No one fishery will ever be exactly as it was the previous year . |
6 | The boy 's parents may still deny his sexual adulthood , or the girl 's will very probably be just as alarmed . |
7 | On McDowell 's account , it would presumably be either as the language acquired such new structure , developing something like a pronoun system and ( iterated ) belief attributions or as , quite independently , behaviour became more complex , calling for higher-order indexical belief states for its explanation ( cf. |
8 | C. The functions of Edinburgh today are much as they were long ago . |
9 | Maria Luisa and Steve might even be together as we are talking . |
10 | This then is essentially as we see it , a plan for the recession . |
11 | For he would never again be wholly as he was . |
12 | But we 're there with everybody really — singing and shouting and that … you 're all together and it does n't matter who else is there as long as they 're Oxford fans … it 's all about the team , is n't it ? … |
13 | I feel quite sad , and I 'm going to miss him , because he 's never been away as long as six months before . |
14 | We shall never be again as we were . |
15 | Whatever happens now , my children , we can never be again as we were . |