Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 2 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 3 | Creggan found his plumage had fine mist settling on it , while his beak grew shiny wet with it as the trees of Three Island Pond changed to faint grey shadows of their former selves before disappearing into white . |
| 4 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 5 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 6 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 7 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 8 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 9 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 10 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 11 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 12 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 13 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 14 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 15 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 16 | Madeleine had no intention of agreeing to this suggestion and , throughout the long journey back in the car , she remained as close to him as the gear lever allowed , and whenever an opportunity presented itself , leant over and kissed his cheek . |
| 17 | If it were as close to us as the Orion Nebula , it would cast shadows . |
| 18 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 19 | Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war . |
| 20 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |