Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 2 | Over much of the country , therefore , the local researcher should expect to find only slight traces of settlement remains , not as extensive or as impressive as those usually published . |
| 3 | Be as subtle or as dramatic as you wish . |
| 4 | Poised , suggestive , but nowhere near as funny or as savage as it should have been . |
| 5 | Amid the peace and comfort of your surroundings , you can enjoy healthy and delicious food , natural therapies and treatments , and any exercise can be as rigorous or as gentle as you wish . |
| 6 | Yields of Texas ' 36MHz SuperSparc implementation , due to feature in the Model 30 , have n't been as high or as good as yields on a 33MHz part , so Sun , under pressure to get Sparc 10 systems out of the door , is thought to have put together the Model 20 to take advantage of this opportunity . |
| 7 | I confess I have never met any woman as shrewish or as critical as you ! ’ |
| 8 | Heads of agreement which are not legally binding can be as detailed or as brief as the parties wish . |
| 9 | But if women learn their social orientation , it may not be as universal or as unchanging as these female-associated methods suggest . |
| 10 | Up to this point I have described these complex psychological developments in a manner which has attempted to make them as clear and as intelligible as possible . |
| 11 | The statement must be as clear and as unambiguous as possible . |
| 12 | Make the demonstration as interesting and as satisfying as possible . |
| 13 | Blue eyes , as light and as frozen as ice , stared into hers before his glance moved slowly downwards , deliberately insulting . |
| 14 | She clung to him , and his mouth found hers , and she tasted as fresh and as new as the morning , and desire had exploded within him , and he thought that after all he had been wrong : once would never be sufficient , he wanted her for always , he wanted to be with her , to share everything with her . |
| 15 | I worked like a Trojan , clearing , cleaning , painting and refurbishing , until the old solar on the ground floor of our manor house gleamed as fresh and as opulent as one of the great Halls of Cambridge . |
| 16 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 17 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 18 | The sun was high and as harsh as on any day Sharpe remembered from the long campaigns in Spain . |
| 19 | Certainly the Church in Egypt , to take but one example , possessed texts at least as old and as authoritative as those in the canonical New Testament — texts which the compilers of the canonical New Testament chose deliberately to exclude . |
| 20 | The reasons for it were as old and as primal as mankind itself . |
| 21 | He was as free and as single as a bird , as he made sure to tell her , and they clearly got along well . |
| 22 | Conditions for the removal and culture of embryos need not necessarily be aseptic but should be dust free and as clean as possible . |
| 23 | I have one role with The Wedding Present and that is to make them as popular and as successful as I can , while limiting the amount of things whey have to compromise . |
| 24 | She tried to sound pleased , casual , anything except embarrassed and as miserable as she did now . |
| 25 | The heroes of Under the Net and Lucky Jim follow a broadly similar path , bemused at lit by false starts and coming by the end to see the social world as it is : various , unstereotypable , kaleidoscopic and as fast-shifting as the shades of an opal , but in the end a place to settle into and improve rather than a system to defy . |
| 26 | Racks can be quite steep and as much as ¼ mile long . |
| 27 | Suddenly , Eleanor of Aquitaine , seventy years old but as active as ever , arrived in Messina with a new bride for her son . |
| 28 | Extrapolating from the known dates of birth , it is possible that as many as 75 per cent of the women employed in 1910 were then aged between 14 and 23 , the remaining 25 per cent being between 24 and 43 or older . |
| 29 | The position of estate agents , as regards fees , is not as consistent or as clear-cut as David Alves , chairman of Real estate agents , represents in his letter ( 5 March ) . |
| 30 | No doubt from then on my route was n't as straight or as accurate as earlier , but at least I was moving . |