Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted you to believe that I was as grateful as you that the baby had died and solved the problem for us of concealing the birth . |
| 2 | ‘ We respect the past but our aim is to start something as exciting as anything that 's ever happened here . |
| 3 | About the size of a sixteen pounder , but infinitely lighter — in fact it had no weight at all — it stood in the heavens shining as white as anything that ever came into a television advertisement . |
| 4 | But it 's not as hard as one that we tried cos we wanted a firm one , she wanted something firm but nice and high . |
| 5 | The way he wrote it , I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man . |
| 6 | All that he could think of was to show her his work on the counter and the panelling , which was probably as good as anything that he 'd ever done . |
| 7 | But yesterday , in a reaction as unpredictable as everything that has happened during this tumultuous week , the Soviet Union welcomed its collapse . |
| 8 | Anne Wilson and her colleagues were as concerned as anyone that assessments are done promptly . |
| 9 | They will be as concerned as you that you are healthy and happy during pregnancy , and that you should get the best out of the services they offer . |
| 10 | Their goal was to create a building that would remain functional after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 , as big as anything that has ever hit California . |
| 11 | Resisting the urge to rout the pair of them by denying in Italian as fluent as theirs that she was any such thing , Luce kept her face impassive until the other woman had disappeared the way she 'd come . |
| 12 | In Trevor Wilson 's words , it was the ‘ Indian summer of the old Liberal Party ’ ; and , as sometimes happens with Indian summers , it was at least as spectacular as anything that had happened during the real one … |
| 13 | A letter which has been ‘ mounted ’ or stuck down to another sheet is not as desirable as one that is free . |
| 14 | A beaming bonhomme , with the confiding smile of Harpo Marx , he produces a range of conjuring tricks and juggling , seemingly as surprised as us that they actually work , but so winning is his personality that nobody would worry if they did n't . |
| 15 | CAMI agrees that direct marketing is an opportunity for effects as creative as anything that television can do ; his company recently produced a brochure for a property development called The Fountains which featured a front cover made of plastic , filled with water and a handful of coins . |