Example sentences of "[noun] as [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to stand up straight and , as usual , one of the guards pushed my legs as close together as possible . |
| 2 | It is best to make these shelves as close together as possible — say , around 10″ , and depending on the depth of shelf and what 's stored on it . |
| 3 | Mr Hurd looked every inch the professional , a man of gravitas who understood history and foreigners , an authoritative performer in parliament and on television , the sort of unflappable figure essential at the side of an untried leader as new abroad as Mr Major . |
| 4 | ‘ The ultimate driving machine ’ the ads said , a claim that was to stand the test of time like few others , establishing principles of BMW motoring as true today as ever . |
| 5 | Here are to be found squares and terraces as distinguished architecturally as in other British cities , and shopping streets which have been precincted and pedestrianised . |
| 6 | There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible . |
| 7 | No wonder there are 23,000 lawyers in Greece , nearly three times as many proportionately as in Italy or Spain . |
| 8 | In Darcy 's Utopia people will make up and change their minds , try something new , retreat to the familiar , suffer from requited and unrequited love as much there as anywhere else : how can it be otherwise ? |
| 9 | Was Soviet technological performance as bad objectively as Soviet writers in their hundreds said it was ? |
| 10 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |