Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , Moby seems as playful and excitable as the next puppy , but he occasionally becomes nervous and withdrawn , sometimes even panicky , especially on walks . |
| 2 | Clive liked to hurt people as much as the next person , felt the need to confirm his power over others , but Mr Skinner was a specialist , an expert . |
| 3 | All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person ! |
| 4 | Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man . |
| 5 | I believe that John Major , if the erm situation demanded , could be as confrontational as the next person is , but |
| 6 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 7 | I 'm as ordinary and self-interested as the next person . ’ |
| 8 | And so Caspar , who though the could be as reserved as the next man , merely said , ‘ Oh , he 's a strange one , Fael-Inis . |
| 9 | Would you like to feel every bit as good as the next person ? |
| 10 | I know as good as the next man what is hip but we decided to forget all that and just concentrate on good songs . |
| 11 | It has no existing direct links to the tunnel and could not function until a high-speed rail link was built , and that could be as late as the next century . |
| 12 | So as long as the Next directory is done early at all times |
| 13 | I 'm as fallible as the next man . |
| 14 | Whereas if you 're washing his clothes , you 're washing one jumper and it 's not the same as the next jumper ; nappies are one square after another , like a nightmare … |
| 15 | The proportion of the bottom two-thirds of pupils who get the following item correct is considerably reduced compared with the number who correctly answer " How many halves are there in 2½ ? " ( see p.33 ) Reading a scale with divisions which do not represent one unit again proves difficult as the next item illustrates : The next question which fewer than 50 per cent of the middle third could answer was the last in this group of three items . |
| 16 | In Diana 's words it can provide ‘ disabled people with freedom from the wheelchair they spend so much of their life in , making them as mobile as the next gust of wind ’ . |
| 17 | A poofter-joke in the canteen , and your laugh is as raucous as the next guy 's . |
| 18 | I find it a very useful thing , and I am as bad as the next person at chatting merrily away with little thought of time or the expense of it . |
| 19 | No doubt Bonard was as hard-headed as the next man in matters of business , but to tackle anyone so obviously grief-stricken on such a comparatively trivial point seemed to her nothing short of callous . |