Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hurd looked every inch the professional , a man of gravitas who understood history and foreigners , an authoritative performer in parliament and on television , the sort of unflappable figure essential at the side of an untried leader as new abroad as Mr Major . |
| 2 | ‘ The ultimate driving machine ’ the ads said , a claim that was to stand the test of time like few others , establishing principles of BMW motoring as true today as ever . |
| 3 | There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible . |
| 4 | In Darcy 's Utopia people will make up and change their minds , try something new , retreat to the familiar , suffer from requited and unrequited love as much there as anywhere else : how can it be otherwise ? |
| 5 | Was Soviet technological performance as bad objectively as Soviet writers in their hundreds said it was ? |