Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 2 | As a couple , they appear as ‘ babes in the wood ’ , helpless and hopeless together as they would be on their own , beset by the awfulness of everyone else . |
| 3 | This makes the Scottish footwork look very light and easy particularly as it is allied to the steps of petit and grand allegro he also used . |
| 4 | But for the caring and hard work of the Pet Rescue Fund Committee many animals would not be alive and well today as they deserve to be . |
| 5 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 6 | PRINCESS Diana was shocked , distressed and puzzled yesterday as she saw pictures of Somalia 's starving children . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 8 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 9 | Surely if that tense moment had affected him at all he would not sound so cool and distant now as he reached for Chalon 's reins . |
| 10 | The doctor was worried about brain damage but Andy seemed just as bright and intelligent afterwards as he 'd been before , remembering details from earlier in his childhood and performing above average in the memory tests the doctor gave him and even doing well in school when that started again after the winter break . |
| 11 | The clock keeps going as usual even as you go through the boundary . |
| 12 | This is its historic mission , as necessary today as it was 100 years ago . |
| 13 | He is dead , the world he knew has died too , and we have other roads to build , but his humility before nature , his sympathy for the suffering and the blind , and his sense of proportion are as necessary now as they ever were . |