Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 2 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 3 | And he is noteworthy also as the composer of one of the only two known French Passion-settings of the sixteenth century : a Matthew Passion published by Attaingnant in 1534 in his tenth volume of motets , where it is followed by an anonymous John Passion . |
| 4 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 5 | Emilia 's face was white almost as the snow , but she was conscious and moaning now . |