Example sentences of "[be] as [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good fortune can be as bewildering as a hard blow sometimes . |
| 2 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 3 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris last month she was overwhelmed by its beauty but others have taken the view that two pianos no matter how superbly played can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 4 | When The Scotsman 's music critic reviewed this production in Paris she was overwhelmed by its beauty , but others have taken the view that two pianos , no matter how superbly played , can never be as effective as a great orchestra . |
| 5 | This will be a series of reasoned , relevant points made in much the same way as a lawyer presents a case in a court of law , though your case will not be as one-sided as a lawyer 's and your judge will be the reader or teacher ! |
| 6 | And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope there 's a fat cheque in the posh otherwise I shall be as poor as a church mouse . |
| 8 | Although it can be as profuse as a gonococcal discharge , it is sometimes only seen first thing in the morning before urine has been passed . |
| 9 | Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest . |
| 10 | This machine may be as simple as a cardboard box with a slot into which a programme can be introduced , and with a knob which the student turns as he completes one line or frame . |
| 11 | A skilled endoscopist is essential , but the equipment can be as simple as a standard endoscope and an injection needle . |
| 12 | In some cabinets this may be as simple as a tray beneath the cabinet , which collects the water . |
| 13 | There is a tiny hole at the end , and if you go into this hole ( you 'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so , and they are minute : thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig ) , you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls . |
| 14 | The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule . |
| 15 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 16 | ‘ If I could have a few minutes — let's say half an hour — to think it over and make some notes , I daresay we 'll be as right as a snail 's whisker . ’ |
| 17 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 18 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 19 | Do n't expect it to be as powerful as a conventional grill though , and it 's likely to operate only with the door closed . |
| 20 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 21 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 22 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 23 | Instead it runs in a straight line directly and accurately back to its nest-hole which may be as much as a hundred and fifty yards away . |
| 24 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 25 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 26 | Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper . |
| 27 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 28 | This accident alarmed safety scientists in Europe because is showed that even a small break in the cooling circuit , if combined with faults in equipment and human error , could be as serious as a large rupture . |
| 29 | You will be as worthless as a piece of dirt on the sole of my shoe . |
| 30 | But it may be as little as a century old . |