Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three years now , I 've carried this pack with me from place to place — a penance , a mortification , a burden that weighed as heavy as sin — thinking never again to open it , never again to be asked to take out my chisel or swing my mallet . |
| 2 | Shame as much as love prompted the denial . |
| 3 | These items would not qualify as medical or emergency expenses . |
| 4 | I have argued that speakers who use Creole in conversation usually are able to switch strategically between LE and what , for that speaker , counts as Creole or Patois . |
| 5 | I was- ’ She stopped as Ace and Petion came through the office door with a black man she did n't recognize . |
| 6 | This he described as offensive and unjust' . |
| 7 | ‘ No anaesthetic , and you 'll feel as right as rain afterwards . ’ |
| 8 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ Well do n't I know just the place we 'll be made as welcome as Christmas ! |
| 10 | Smoking as addictive as heroin , says specialist |
| 11 | ‘ And why you are looking as blue as megrim . ’ |
| 12 | The Norfolk official left City looking as crestfallen as Christmas turkeys when Garry Parker volleyed them in front with clinical skill — with Dalian Atkinson clearly offside , twice . |
| 13 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 14 | And er that had to be regulated , regulated as far as fairness and response to er any claim that our members may make in respect of fairness you know , er and it , to enable them to reach the target bonus . |
| 15 | I stepped on a twig which made a noise that seemed as loud as thunder and I ran back across to my hiding place . |
| 16 | It seemed as bright as day out on the newly-laid forecourt and it was as if she 'd been caught by the lights , trapped and dazed like a rabbit on a long country road . |
| 17 | She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white . |
| 18 | And — because this is not the same thing — which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum ? |
| 19 | The State is seen as developing as class differentiation increases , because it is one of the tools by which a dominant class maintains itself . |
| 20 | Just as a State may act on behalf of another State or other legal entity , so too an organisation might be seen as acting as agent for its member States . |
| 21 | A concise statutory definition of insider dealing is not offered in the CSA 1985 , but conduct constituting insider dealing may be said to exist where : an insider deliberately deals as principal or agent on a recognised exchange in securities of the company in question on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 22 | Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating . |
| 23 | His black eyes turned as cold as stone . |
| 24 | I will , see he probably has n't got as good as discount as me , so |
| 25 | Hands clasped behind his back , face as grave as stone . |
| 26 | It is common ground between the parties and their Lordships readily accept as correct that section 20(8) of the Constitution of Jamaica is simply intended to embody the common law doctrines of autrefois convict and autrefois acquit . |
| 27 | These agents seem as effective as sulphasalazine in the treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis , and in the short term are less toxic . |
| 28 | Yes , plastic shoes do n't look as good as leather ones . |
| 29 | " You look as ugly as sin . " |
| 30 | He 's had as much as grandma |