Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 2 | Oh , ’ she pushed Nathan forward , who 'd been hanging sullenly back , making it apparent he thought this visit nowhere near as entertaining as prowling Arcady with the others . |
| 3 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 4 | " That 's about as stupid as saying you became a nurse because you get a kick out of emptying bedpans . |
| 5 | A ; Oh for heavens sake where the heck is this bus honestly it 's about as rare as seeing a three legged duck walking along the High Street with a shopping trolley . |
| 6 | Trying to escape him was about as feasible as trying to escape a very big shark in a very small fish tank . |
| 7 | The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William . |
| 8 | Degas ' ‘ Singer with a glove ’ ( ca. 1878 ) and ‘ The Rehearsal ’ ( 1873–78 ) , Monet 's ‘ The Gare St. Lazare : the arrival of a train ’ ( 1877 ) , Renoir 's ‘ Seated bather ’ ( 1883–84 ) , and van Gogh 's ‘ Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin ’ ( 1888 ) are about as good as works by these artists get . |
| 9 | You know , the kind which reads in full : ‘ About as riveting as watching snow melt , about as thrilling as a plate of polenta , ’ and is subsequently truncated to ‘ Rivetting ! ’ and ‘ Thrilling ! ’ . |
| 10 | ft was about as frustrating as trying to masturbate with your hands tied behind your back . |
| 11 | But to leave it there is about as practical as learning to fly an aeroplane by reading a book on the subject . |
| 12 | While Almond aims for tacky , spunky cabaret rock , he 's about as subversive as Come Dancing . |
| 13 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 14 | Staying on here was about as possible as flying to the moon . |
| 15 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 16 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 17 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 18 | FOOTBALL shares are about as safe as betting that Gazza wo n't injure himself this season . |