Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 The school is the type that has not adapted itself to alternative , non-academic needs and which , in general , is not sensitive to the fact that pupils are people with as much right as anyone else to be respected .
2 Some 70 trade exhibitors were persuaded to pitch their tents at three levels on steep slopes which proved a testing but rewarding exercise for visitors from as fair afield as Scotland and the West Country .
3 Some 70 trade exhibitors were persuaded to pitch their tents at three levels on steep slopes which proved a testing but rewarding exercise for visitors from as fair afield as Scotland and the West Country .
4 He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half .
5 Both were young men on their way to work , and both said they were very frequently stopped by police at about 5 am as they went to work .
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