Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbon , glass , boron , graphite , hexagon , all seem lifeless to me ; and high-modulus , high-strength aerospace technology leaves me about as cold as deep-frozen Arctic char . |
| 2 | Well , there are next door neighbours , who I think are very nice , but I do n't think that Jackie and Ned got a lot in common with them that 's , tha that 's one house that adjoins them and then a little further on , its a lane , its about as wide as this Brenda . |
| 3 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 4 | It looked impossibly quaint , although nothing like as appealing as those far-off places of her imagination . |
| 5 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |
| 6 | Some hardware can be fairly portable but nothing like as easy as a bound book . |
| 7 | Moreover , the commercial spin-off from defence research has proved to be nothing like as great as the gains made from comparable expenditures on industrial research [ Peck , 1968 ] . |
| 8 | Moreover , even when ‘ means-testing ’ is a factor , for some of the benefits income levels are nothing like as low as many people imagine . |
| 9 | The opposition in England 's group was nothing like as strong as they faced in winning the HDM tournament in Holland before Christmas . |
| 10 | I go back to Chelmsford most weekends and manage to see my daughter quite regularly , though our relationship is still nothing like as close as it was before my arrest . |
| 11 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 12 | Nothing like as far as Spring Hill Lane . |
| 13 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |
| 14 | Yet language is nothing like as static as we think . |
| 15 | Her nightdress was nothing like as pretty as Maman 's , no lace , only broderie anglaise the same as edged Nicandra 's drawers ( " knickers " and panties " were common words , not to be used . |
| 16 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 17 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 18 | Officials argue that the rise in the yen , so far , is nothing like as steep as the near doubling of the currency which occurred after the 1985 Plaza Accord . |
| 19 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 20 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 21 | Our defeat [ at the October 1974 general election ] was nothing like as heavy as most of us had feared . |
| 22 | Yet we do know , now , that the world 's waters are the world 's essential regulators : of global temperature , and of the chemistry of the atmosphere — which is nothing like so invariable as we might like to suppose . |
| 23 | If they 're gon na put it through as quick as they can for us , cos they want us |
| 24 | No if it 's the one thing I know that I do n't have to concern myself with as far as financial services is |
| 25 | In no country in which preferences among list candidates can be expressed are the relevant numbers anything like so great as in most of the West German Länder . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not anything like as easy as one imagines at the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ and when you 've actually qualified it 's quite frightening when you 're confronted by an animal with some mysterious disease and an anxious client standing by . |
| 27 | The visibility and accountability of the decision , or lack thereof , might have caused Howard some anxiety , but again he was not faced with proposing reforms for a prison system anything like as complex as TDC . |
| 28 | The losses at the Battle of Sagrajas had been great and not even the addition of El Cid 's men could make it anything like as strong as it had been before the coming of Yusuf . |
| 29 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 30 | and Soho Square was n't anything like as crowded as Lucy might have hoped . |