Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but when he got down here he was as right as rain was n't he ? |
| 2 | Yeah , they 're not as dry as scones are they ? |
| 3 | I do n't know if the situation in Germany is as stable as people are making out I do not know if the other continents , or the other countries within the European continents , are of a stable nature when we look at what is happening in certain parts of the previous Russia or the states of the U S S R there is complete and utter confusion and atrocities being perpetrated on people within those . |
| 4 | Few could have hoped to show a courage almost as strong as Kelly 's when she learned that her heart and lung transplant had failed . |
| 5 | Commitment to suggestions and proposals may not be as strong when emotions are not engaged . |
| 6 | Where lesser imaginations , like that of Charlotte M. Yonge , can be adequately described as ‘ products of their time ’ ( because , like mirrors , they reflect back to their world merely the domestic images they took from it ) , a vision as peculiar as Dickens 's not only transforms the actuality , but subtly alters the reader 's perception of it . |
| 7 | An assault on the conscience as direct as Ruskin 's may prove to be a two-edged weapon , eliciting self-justification rather than remorse . |
| 8 | On a continuum of complexity from the bottom of the structure to the top , where are the discontinuities that will allow us to identify layers of hierarchy that are distinct and separable , as different as ice is from water and water from steam ? |
| 9 | Lochs which were once as clear as crystal are now coloured muddy brown . |
| 10 | ‘ In the Middle Ages he was just as real as God was . |
| 11 | Out on the stairs a piece of paper as worthless as Chamberlain 's prohibited the use of body oils . |
| 12 | Although it emphasized that the sum required was not only insignificant compared with military spending world-wide , but only half as much as Germany was expected to spend on the process of unification , the report also acknowledged that more efficient use could be made of the money already being spent . |
| 13 | Fabia was holding on to him as much as Ven was holding on to her when their lips met . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 16 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 17 | I 'm sure that , that , that as long as we can show Norfolk , we can show Norfolk with our concern interest just as much as Suffolk is concerned that our |
| 18 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 19 | The Casa Republicii was the symbol of Ceauşescu 's indifference to the well-being of the current generation of Romanians as much as Versailles was the embodiment of Louis XIV 's quest for glory regardless of the sufferings of his own people . |
| 20 | The Wall Street Journal , which talked this week of the ‘ absurdity of the charges ’ in the GAF trial , concluded : ‘ What 's on trial as much as GAF is whether federal prosecutors in the Wall Street cases know whom to prosecute , with whom to plea bargain , and whom to leave alone . ’ |
| 21 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 22 | He thinks he can grow the business into a significant piece of change , much of it coming perhaps from the Microsoft arena where , as much as Lachman is a self-admitted Unix bigot , he knows he has to enter . |
| 23 | The Borough , willing enough to disparage and hunt down Grimes , cares little for the fate of his apprentices , though Crabbe is never as explicit as Slater is in the libretto . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The manager 's problem tonight is to find a replacement for the injured Brian O'Neil , while looking for a wholehearted performance against a side whose manager , Simon Stainrod , is as relaxed as Brady is uncomfortable . |
| 26 | My bed was on the other side of the room , away from the window , and so not quite as cold as Gav 's in the winter . |
| 27 | Since the direction of the direct and the indirect effect is the same ( which need not always be so ) , the size of the effect of job type on absenteeism would not be as large once sex was controlled as it had seemed in the bivariate relationship . |
| 28 | What matters , as Morgan , Marx , and Engels rightly stress , is the corporate organization of descent groups , but these descent groups are just as corporate whether descent is reckoned patrilineally or matrilineally . |
| 29 | But Walsh 's position was not as polarized as Thornton 's with regard to the others . |
| 30 | Well I 've spoken to Keith and Kim from B-TEC about some of this and er things are not as clear-cut as people are perhaps making out . |