Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 2 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 3 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 4 | The AP1-88 is only as noisy as a major road at a distance of 100 m to 200 m , and at I km is no noisier than a quiet residential area . |
| 5 | The back avenue was a secondary way from the house , only as wide as a street , it ran between a shrubbery and a park-like field until it reached the farmyard wall . |
| 6 | Telemine is only as large as a conventional torpedo — of which two British versions were sufficient to sink the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano with the loss of more than 300 lives during the Falklands war last summer . |
| 7 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 8 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 9 | On orders from the White House , perhaps as many as a million federal government emloyees are now subject to testing . |
| 10 | On some days ( not enjoyed by any of us ) perhaps as many as a quarter of our cases will be requests for euthanasia . |
| 11 | She eased down his pants to his ankles , and she saw that his cock was already as stiff as a poker . |
| 12 | I reckon that 'd be just as comfy as a proper bed . |
| 13 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 14 | All engineers know about stress concentrations but a good many do n't really in their hearts believe in them since it is clearly contrary to common sense that a tiny hole should weaken a material just as much as a great big one . |
| 15 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
| 16 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 17 | If the surface of thick glass can be got smooth and kept smooth it will be just as strong as a thin fibre . |
| 18 | Some of those classified as short-term unemployed may be intermittently unemployed and this may be just as demoralising as a long spell off work . |
| 19 | Once agreement is reached , the settlement is just as final as a judgment and , unless the agreement has been improperly procured , the issues of fact and law raised in the original claim may not be the subject of further litigation . |
| 20 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |
| 21 | An oral contract for supplying a haulage service is just as enforceable as a written one for this purpose . |
| 22 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 23 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 24 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 25 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
| 26 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 27 | There is no reason why a British robot should n't be just as productive as a Japanese one . |
| 28 | In the case of humans — to the physical factors or the environment , the ideological environment must be added , because a idea is just as valid as a kick in the teeth ; ideas are actually more important stimuli to the nervous system than are other types of stimuli ; ideas are , or induce , emotions that evoke energy in the nervous system . ’ |
| 29 | It took some time to locate the bottle — normally as healthy as a young animal , Rory rarely had need of medication . |
| 30 | Oh I see what you mean , no I do n't think he 'll come home as bright as a button , somehow or other |