Example sentences of "[prep] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | instead of as weak as water , |
| 2 | Her nightdress was nothing like as pretty as Maman 's , no lace , only broderie anglaise the same as edged Nicandra 's drawers ( " knickers " and panties " were common words , not to be used . |
| 3 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 4 | Yet he had made no secret of his opinion that women and boats were about as compatible as oil and water . |
| 5 | As a result , Lewis was able to announce triumphant plans to get rich by fighting fat old George Foreman , whom Maloney ridiculed as an opponent for Bowe , to push for the split of the titles and still claim the high moral ground , which in heavyweight boxing , is about as firm as quicksand . |
| 6 | So far , the New Age is about as new as man himself . |
| 7 | A couple of days ago , Tony Donaldson thought , it was pissing with rain and half-freezing ; now everybody was stamping around in wellingtons and three pullovers , about as appropriate as scuba gear on a parachute drop . |
| 8 | It is curious how he manages to make John Major sound about as animated and self-willed as a sack of potatoes.Ask him whether the PM takes his advice , and you get a similar impression . |
| 9 | His changes , designed to tighten the defence for another tilt at the European Cup , has not pleased all critics and he knows his twin requirement is about as tough as football can provide . |
| 10 | I mean that 's , that 's about as entertaining as morris dancing |
| 11 | With poetry about as popular as evening crochet classes , it 's no mean feat that Lemn Sissay is fast establishing himself as an ingenious scribe with a tangible vibe . |
| 12 | ‘ To me — a stranger — that 's about as clear as mud . |
| 13 | ‘ I think his career was about as dramatic as sport can get . |
| 14 | He 's about as funny as diptheria . ’ |
| 15 | it was about as funny as toothache |
| 16 | The outdoor adventures are looked upon as fun and relaxation , although I must say they pay their way . ’ |
| 17 | In as much as feminism represented a split within the dominant classes , creating multiple fractures within liberalism , there were many women who carried with them their class perceptions of the ethical and beneficent state . |
| 18 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 19 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 20 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 21 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 22 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 23 | R Coronæ , in the bowl , is generally well within binocular range , and can just become visible with the naked eye , but when it drops to minimum it may fall to as low as magnitude 15 . |
| 24 | I mean he er he used to as regular as clock work but I say , and I have had those times when he comes four o'clock- ish even in the afternoon . |
| 25 | These presentations are referred to as pseudoisochromatic or confusion plates and set a task in which the normal eye can discriminate figures composed of coloured dots , whilst the eye with abnormal colour vision can not do so . |
| 26 | Phragmata occupying these two positions have been referred to as pre- and postphragmata mata respectively and both may be carried by either the meso- or metathorax of some insects ; no phragma is ever borne by the prothorax . |
| 27 | Please could you let us have two copies of a map on as large as scale as possible . |
| 28 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |