Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were hard , some sticky , some wobbly or as runny as water . |
| 2 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 3 | At this point Micky Watson was presented with a silver bowl and made a Life Member , although still continuing as Course Secretary . |
| 4 | Gentleman , this is to quaint you all of you cor Serning the Billing of this workhous think to starve the poore theare Stephen Wite Stratford Lews of Barfield Wile of TataSon Loyd hintlesham but let them tak care of thin Selves for farit that is hap on shall there Brains be Blown out and that as sure as death and fail not and the hous shall not be bilt a toyle for theare shall be 500 planted soon and will di all it and pull Wiles hous down . |
| 5 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 6 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 7 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 8 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 9 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 10 | Tony Smith and his friends have undertaken a few short cross-country flights in VS and are getting more and more adventurous as confidence builds . |
| 11 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 12 | Medicine , while still based on plants , became more and more sophisticated as knowledge accumulated , especially with the introduction of printing , which meant that information could be passed on exactly , instead of inaccurately , by hearsay , and thus provided a bigger and bigger base from which to work . |
| 13 | They seem to be experiments in animal design that did not work efficiently enough to survive in the competition that became more and more intense as time passed and animal life proliferated . |
| 14 | The rivermen were finding it hard ; the scramble for work was becoming more and more intense as family debts grew and many valued and treasured items found their way into the local pawnshops . |
| 15 | 1972 : Mesarovic & Pestel 1976 ) , actually becomes cheaper and more plentiful as technology finds and creates new resources and uses existing ones more efficiently . |
| 16 | He was a strong , healthy lad and as pleased as punch to be working with Dad . |
| 17 | You know , so all the time you 're up here , like this , and then perhaps you stay to try and get some work finished before you go home , and as sure as fate , that 's the day when you promised to take somebody out , when you go home , and you 've forgotten about it . |
| 18 | I know what you want , and as sure as hell , ’ he said savagely , his merciless hands holding her a prisoner , ‘ I 'll stop you from getting it . ’ |
| 19 | He was drunk and as sure as hell only after one thing and you let yourself — ’ |
| 20 | Blue eyes , as light and as frozen as ice , stared into hers before his glance moved slowly downwards , deliberately insulting . |
| 21 | It was a very cold frosty night in December , and because the snow on the footpath was hard and uneven , and as slippery as ice , I walked along the edge of the road . |
| 22 | and as clever as circus monkeys . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're as pure and as good as gold . |
| 24 | The reasons for it were as old and as primal as mankind itself . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's two sides to you , you know , Aggie , and one 's unfair and as bitter as gall . ’ |
| 26 | She though the place well-named , for the hall was bleak and comfortless and as cold as winter in High Tor . |
| 27 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 28 | His own voice was low and as cold as steel . |
| 29 | The sky was huge , and as pale as porcelain . |
| 30 | They were empty , and as quiet as death . |