Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 2 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 3 | Oh , ’ she pushed Nathan forward , who 'd been hanging sullenly back , making it apparent he thought this visit nowhere near as entertaining as prowling Arcady with the others . |
| 4 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 5 | " That 's about as stupid as saying you became a nurse because you get a kick out of emptying bedpans . |
| 6 | A ; Oh for heavens sake where the heck is this bus honestly it 's about as rare as seeing a three legged duck walking along the High Street with a shopping trolley . |
| 7 | Trying to escape him was about as feasible as trying to escape a very big shark in a very small fish tank . |
| 8 | The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William . |
| 9 | Degas ' ‘ Singer with a glove ’ ( ca. 1878 ) and ‘ The Rehearsal ’ ( 1873–78 ) , Monet 's ‘ The Gare St. Lazare : the arrival of a train ’ ( 1877 ) , Renoir 's ‘ Seated bather ’ ( 1883–84 ) , and van Gogh 's ‘ Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin ’ ( 1888 ) are about as good as works by these artists get . |
| 10 | You know , the kind which reads in full : ‘ About as riveting as watching snow melt , about as thrilling as a plate of polenta , ’ and is subsequently truncated to ‘ Rivetting ! ’ and ‘ Thrilling ! ’ . |
| 11 | ft was about as frustrating as trying to masturbate with your hands tied behind your back . |
| 12 | But to leave it there is about as practical as learning to fly an aeroplane by reading a book on the subject . |
| 13 | While Almond aims for tacky , spunky cabaret rock , he 's about as subversive as Come Dancing . |
| 14 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 15 | Staying on here was about as possible as flying to the moon . |
| 16 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 17 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 18 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 19 | FOOTBALL shares are about as safe as betting that Gazza wo n't injure himself this season . |
| 20 | We at the at the initia erm the initial opening as well we 've we would er er offer an invitation to the press and the media to attend our launch meeting er from from this we would hopefully get some advertising in as much as apply to erm and er hope t to get X amount of the market . |
| 21 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 22 | She reached out and caught it without so much as wobbling . |
| 23 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 24 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 25 | She flicked a look at Travis as , without so much as asking her to hold on , Mr Green went away to tell Rosemary that she was wanted on the phone . |
| 26 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 27 | She brought from under her shawl an untidy sheaf of documents and handed them to Emily without so much as bobbing a polite curtsy . |
| 28 | And he stops at cafés , for a sit-down with a beer or an apéritif or a coffee , without so much as noticing the prices , or whether it is too near lunchtime . |
| 29 | Now Stuart , you should know , is rancidly smug about finding his way through London without so much as crossing a bus-route — his driving is all Kilburn cut-throughs and dinky dives along back-streets tumescent with sleeping policemen . |
| 30 | disorder which makes her frightened to so much as giggle , but break |