Example sentences of "[conj] as [adj] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 2 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 3 | No lovemaking had ever been as erotic or as liberating as their half-illicit couplings on unyielding sand within yards of the crashing tide . |
| 4 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 5 | Once parts and ideas come to the assembly line , the overseas factories are virtually as good or as bad as their Japanese counterparts at sending cars out of the factory doors . |
| 6 | To line the can , cut out a rectangle of paper as long as the circumference of the can and as wide as its depth . |
| 7 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
| 8 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 9 | A relationship is only as deep and as effective as its communication . |
| 10 | I want you to promise me that you will keep your intelligence as alive and as visible as your beauty . ’ |
| 11 | Miss Jekyll 's books are pleasantly readable and as uncluttered as their titles — Home and Garden ; Wood and Garden ; Children and Gardens ; Old West Surrey … this last with 300 photographs to record early Victorian life in those parts . |
| 12 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 13 | And as far as our group 's vision statement is concerned , to be acknowledged as the leading consultant in the rail er in the field of railway engineering . |
| 14 | Our relationship between any lottery director and G Tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in California , we 've had instances were we 've been successful in California in gaining business while she was a director , and we 've been unsuccessful . |
| 15 | She and her parents had spent four unforgettable days seeing the Tower of London , the British Museum and as much as her father could pack in without exhausting her . |
| 16 | His writing is larger than mine , I note , and as fine as his hair . |
| 17 | Thomas Sachs was as good and as generous as his word . |
| 18 | The chanting continued slightly changing in pitch , then from separate deep corners of the pool undulated six velvet-black eels , each slightly longer than ourselves , and as thick as our thighs . |
| 19 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 20 | The newly lit candle , blood red and as thick as my wrist , contained the still flame and the tiny head within its caldera of wax like pieces of an alien game . |
| 21 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 22 | His Gluck Iphigenie this summer , first of a planned Drottningholm cycle , was self-consciously unobtrusive , almost rough in its stage manners — and as unexciting as his Don Giovanni from the same stable seen in Brighton . |
| 23 | It was the first National Forest park , created over 50 years ago , the 28,000 acres of verdant forest contain a history as colourful and as remarkable as its setting . |
| 24 | But as common as his sisters were , the one who had died had become quite wealthy through a progressive small business . |
| 25 | But as important as our joint interests are our shared values and I think a very good example of this is our common approach , er er , to the question of the Social Chapter for which the Labour opposition led , I may say , by two leading G M B spokesmen Jack and George the Labour opposition has fought long and hard for this in parliament , indeed , we have secured a vote on the question er , after the Queen 's ascent , and last month , I myself , as a guest of the Danish social democrats , took the argument to the continent in the Danish referendum , in the second Danish ref referendum , which I 'm very glad to say was won ! |