Example sentences of "as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resenting this , and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war , many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names . |
| 2 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 3 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 4 | He was as rooted as the policemen , as the people in the cars , as Steve and Mr Chan . |
| 5 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 6 | A ‘ good ’ western imperialist was a contradiction in terms , and ‘ bad ’ third world leaders , if they existed , were better elided as understandable national teething troubles . |
| 7 | For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived . |
| 8 | While condemning the Soviet coup , Marchais had described it as understandable in view of the failure of perestroika . |
| 9 | Angola 's Marxist government used to be as inhospitable to aid workers as Sudan . |
| 10 | She had closed the door When Nick was quiet , which was almost at once ( cold water was almost as hateful as spiders ) Miss Evans whispered timidly through it . |
| 11 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 12 | HOLLYWOOD would reject it as unbelievable , but in Philippines politics anything is possible : even being double-crossed by the corpse of your husband 's murderer . |
| 13 | It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed . |
| 14 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
| 15 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 16 | Golazo roughly translates as unbelievable . |
| 17 | He described as unbelievable a suggestion that he had asked staff about drugs at their job interviews . |
| 18 | Although during Roman times bronze and marble were the materials most commonly used in sculpture , the tradition of reproducing the human form in ivory was continued in the small scale reliefs carved on the backs of the writing tablets which served as official presents in pagan antiquity and as votive offerings in the early Christian church . |
| 19 | He has a cottage which is in not good enough condition to let , he ca n't afford to do it up , and it does n't quite qualify as decrepit . |
| 20 | But the threat he regards as greatest of all is the one he least expected : the discovery of gold in the mountains at his back door . |
| 21 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 22 | Did they , too , intend it as derisive ? |
| 23 | His voice was scathing , the twist of his mouth as derisive as she had ever seen and then suddenly , puzzlingly , he smiled . |
| 24 | Tanks and guns bombarding one 's inside seemed totally out of place , so I sought inspiration in earlier times , in the knowledge that what was once just as hideous has , over the years been softened by children 's books , Morte d'Arthur and the legends of chivalry . |
| 25 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 26 | Ashi had no doubt the woman would have been as rapt at his polite charm and elegance as she herself had once been . |
| 27 | She was no ingénue , to gape like a child at its first Guy Fawkes night , but the sheer volume of erupting sound and colour held her in its thrall , her face as rapt as those of the silent crowds around her . |
| 28 | I mean , he 's nearly as as overdrawn as Sophie and she 's , she 's nearly completed her course ! |
| 29 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 30 | Cheers as cruel farmer is jailed |