Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 2 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |
| 3 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 4 | He describes it as imposed as a quite explicit deterrent without reference to the actual availability of work . |
| 5 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 6 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 7 | ‘ Next time it will be better ’ comforts him as little as ‘ Never mind , we 'll open a tin of something ’ soothes her wounded self-esteem at a spoiled supper . ’ |
| 8 | In the investment phase , the learner commits himself as much as possible , as he engages in conversation with other members of the learning community . |
| 9 | That 's what annoys me as much as anything . |
| 10 | He deserves it as much as anyone , maybe more , but I wish he would n't be so patronising . ’ |
| 11 | As with the unconscious , of course , what is not said tells us as much as , or more than , what is said . |
| 12 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 13 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 14 | Strangeness solicits me as much as familiarity repels ’ ( If It Die , 253 ) . |
| 15 | This terrifies them as much as it terrified your committee on your behalf . |
| 16 | Do n't think I 'm being bitchy if I say that Stephen probably resents him as much as he admires him . |
| 17 | In other words , having a space open to all , where you 're a bit of a showman and hope someone else likes it as much as you do . |
| 18 | The smuttier the better , I thinks ; bless you ! the gals likes it as much as we do . |
| 19 | Society penetrates us as much as it envelops us . |
| 20 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 21 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 22 | An and it 's what makes me so cross as I walk past that blinking school every day and you think my kid should be over there ! |
| 23 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |
| 24 | And that makes him as good as dead now . |
| 25 | Er that which makes it as critical as as a lot of er paper work . |
| 26 | This plan makes it as likely as possible that I shall employ behaviours that are appropriate in two vital ways : |