Example sentences of "[is] as [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some larger churches can be so impersonal that to think in terms of ‘ joining ’ is as meaningless as joining the cinema ! |
| 2 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 3 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 4 | Sue Larcombe of the RA welcomed the move and says ‘ Learning to use a map and compass is as essential as learning to swim ’ . |
| 5 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 6 | With your eurocheques and eurocheque card , you will find that paying at restaurants , hotels and shops in Europe and the Mediterranean is as easy as using your cheque book in the UK . |
| 7 | Installing Taos then , is as simple as copying the files to your hard disk , typing TAOS and you 're in . |
| 8 | Installing Taos then , is as simple as copying the files to your hard disk , typing TAOS and you 're in . |
| 9 | Changing to bridged mono operation , which is as simple as flicking a switch , allows the CF-200 to kick out something in the region of 200 watts into 8 ohms — and all this from a 1U rack space . |
| 10 | Modifying patches is as simple as pressing whichever up or down buttons you fancy , waiting until you find a sound you like and then saving it using the usual ‘ Enter ’ button . |
| 11 | Creating this elegant , opulent bedhead is as simple as making curtains and hanging a rack . |
| 12 | However divorce is as effective as dieting for shifting stubborn weight ! |
| 13 | Turning up the charm level at this point is as effective as spraying DDT in her eye . |
| 14 | A sequence and no dates is as useful as knowing that one site lies to the west of another without knowing how far . |
| 15 | It was powerfully argued by Bernard Williams , in his Raymond Priestley Lecture delivered in Birmingham in 1956 , that to study the humanities is as useful as to study the sciences . |
| 16 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 17 | Further , the quaint Kelsenian point that the lawmaker can even determine outside the frame can not offer Finnis much of a target because , if the frame is as indeterminate as to admit of contradictory determinations , then the distinction between a determination within and a determination outwith the frame is meaningless . |
| 18 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 19 | this joke is as radical as farting in bed … |
| 20 | It is as nonsensical as measuring the power of English kings solely in the light of unusual incidents occurring in the marches against Scotland . |
| 21 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 22 | Once you finally put the shoe on , the adjustment of fit is as haphazard as tightening a pair of laces . |
| 23 | " Nobody is as simple-minded as edifying literature assumes " , he asserts . |
| 24 | It 's not necessarily in the hi-fi reviewer 's own interests to belittle those differences that do exist of course , but it 's hard to avoid concluding that all too often the range of variations between CD players really is as small as suggested above . |
| 25 | The software installation is as straightforward as installing the card . |
| 26 | There is a sort of agony in loving a man from a distance , especially as if you know that your own twin sister is as good as promised to him . |
| 27 | And this half hour of sweet silence was the greatest pleasure that night , it was its crowning moment ( Boy thought , this is as good as coming together ) , the precious moment from which Boy was to go home exhausted and almost jaded with pleasure , the moment to which all the overtures of the night had led . |
| 28 | A self-uglifying expression of humility — plus an elaborate show of stealthiness which is as good as saying ‘ Yes , I am late — and please pay attention to my performance of humbly not wishing to be paid attention to ’ , i.e. Here 's me entering as unostentatiously as I know how — so you can see how much I regret my rudeness ! ’ |
| 29 | A lot of what follows is as painful as pulling teeth . |
| 30 | This is achieved via BT 's Global Network Service link and ISDN , and is as quick as making a local call . |