Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 2 | Corbett was oblivious to everything else as he travelled down into the city : the dirty streets , the noisy clamour of the traders , even the mixture of rich smells from bakeries , cookshops and heaps of human and animal ordure steaming in the summer sun . |
| 3 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 4 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 5 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 6 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 7 | Mummy instilled a beauty routine into me as a young girl which is as automatic to me now as brushing my teeth . |
| 8 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 9 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 10 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |