Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as people " in BNC.
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| 1 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 2 | You can also play this with a number of boards , but it is best to avoid tagging each other by board contact , which becomes rather dangerous as people start ramming each other . |
| 3 | Compulsory retirement for all at a fixed age is no longer appropriate as people live longer and healthier lives . |
| 4 | There is an increasing number of low- and no-alcohol beers , lagers and wines on the market — they taste good , look good and are becoming more and more socially acceptable as people realise the dangers of taking too much alcohol . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but that would have become progressively more risky as people began to stir . ’ |
| 6 | Gradually , however , maps became more and more accurate as people found out more about the world . |
| 7 | These negative trends were becoming more common as people ‘ looked towards money ’ rather than socialist moral values , a situation the party leaders regretted but seemed unable to control . |
| 8 | The lens in our eyes can not bulge enough to focus underwater , and other swimmers appear blurred , although still recognisable as people . |
| 9 | I do n't know if the situation in Germany is as stable as people are making out I do not know if the other continents , or the other countries within the European continents , are of a stable nature when we look at what is happening in certain parts of the previous Russia or the states of the U S S R there is complete and utter confusion and atrocities being perpetrated on people within those . |
| 10 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 11 | Maybe we just are n't as clever as people used to be ; maybe the Nintendo Gameboy and daytime television ( both , significantly , introduced in the past six or seven years ) have ruined thousands of careers , not just my own . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is not as easy as people imagine , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , acknowledged in the UK House of Commons on Feb. 16 that the draft was " not ideal " , and that the rate of progress towards democracy in Hong kong would not be " as rapid as people in Hong Kong , or we ourselves , would have liked to see " . |
| 14 | Even when they stood shoul der-to-shoulder , they looked as tense as people crammed in a lift , desperate to avoid any more contact than necessary . |
| 15 | Well I 've spoken to Keith and Kim from B-TEC about some of this and er things are not as clear-cut as people are perhaps making out . |
| 16 | As for people in Leeds being sick of the Manc hype , people in Manchester are sick of the Manc hype and have been for as long as people from Leeds have been tramping across the moors in their flares and Kickers to buy ‘ God created Manchester ’ tops and to dance at the Haçienda . |
| 17 | I suppose , Professor Smith , that medicine 's been around just about as long as people have been around ? |
| 18 | But one very famous pianist — not a great destroyer of reputations — said to me recently , ‘ He was not a very nice man , and not as good as people said he was . ’ |
| 19 | And a confident Hide said yesterday : ‘ I 've always known I was as good as people like Bruno and Lewis , and if I was offered a fight against Bowe in January I 'd take it . |
| 20 | In any case , codes and policies are only as good as people 's commitment to implementing them . |
| 21 | ‘ Performances like this prove we are not as flimsy as people think . ’ |
| 22 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 23 | But of course we 've got to be a bit careful , because the Americans are going , sort of the other way now , that people ca n't wear perfume and deodorant , that , that smell and things like that , can they , because it 's now seen as being equally as difficult as people who smoke . |
| 24 | So , all in all , although he reckons the outlook for facilities management is not quite as optimistic as people once thought , he does feel that ‘ there is a logic in making use of the experts ’ . |
| 25 | He 's not as horrible as people say . ’ |
| 26 | Is the weather as bad as people keep telling me because it was Okay when I drove in this morning . |
| 27 | Further , it is important to emphasise that ‘ independence ’ is not a fixed state , and maintaining control over their lives will often become increasingly hard as people grow older . |
| 28 | ‘ There are two sets of stairs into and out of every gallery , ’ Paxton explained , ‘ So that if we get too many visitors it does n't get too congested as people move around . |