Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 2 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 3 | So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice . |
| 4 | So as far as the actual topics I 'm going to cover are concerned , erm can everybody see . |
| 5 | Erm so as far as the , the you know , the steps was concerned that , that went through good , very well , and you went through them all in er in , in the right order . |
| 6 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 7 | An unsigned act which is being chased by half a dozen record companies does have some leverage in negotiations , but only as much as the levels of supply and demand will allow . |
| 8 | Dice up the leaves and feed only as much as the fish will consume in ten minutes . |
| 9 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
| 10 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 11 | At the end of the day PR is a people business and you are only as successful as the number of good people you have . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The line 's only as far as the gate . ’ |
| 13 | The back avenue was a secondary way from the house , only as wide as a street , it ran between a shrubbery and a park-like field until it reached the farmyard wall . |
| 14 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 15 | Databases are only as useful as the questions pupils ask of them . |
| 16 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 17 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 18 | The solicitor 's defence is only as good as the quality of the information in the written documents . |
| 19 | Visits are only as good as the preparation made before them . |
| 20 | Man was only as good as the tools he had available to impress his will on the environment , Heinz suggested . |
| 21 | In the end , however attractive the idea of glasnost , it is only as good as the people who must make it work . |
| 22 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 23 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 24 | Guarantees are , however , only as good as the people or businesses giving them . |
| 25 | Any guidebook is only as good as the input of information into it , and this is an opportunity to make sure the guide is up to date and accurate . |
| 26 | The second is that the experiments we do are only as good as the psychological theories that underlie them . |
| 27 | A phone is only as good as the system it is plugged into . |
| 28 | ACE schemes are only as good as the people who run them . |
| 29 | They are , of course , like computers , only as good as the people who program them , and do not offer miracle solutions to impossible situations . |
| 30 | We may say , in fact , that a stylo-statistician is only as good as the linguistic theory on which he relies . |