Example sentences of "be [adj] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The van Goghs must have been relieved as well as saddened when their rumbling volcano of a son departed . |
| 2 | The books of Roald Dahl are in the group of books that , due to their appeal to young readers , and perhaps their iconoclastic treatment of the adult world , are suspect as far as critics and prize panels are concerned . |
| 3 | You are innocent as far as Her Majesty 's Government is concerned . |
| 4 | In water it forms aluminosilicates , which are inert as far as living organisms are concerned , so long as the level of acidity stays low — the silicon will make the aluminium separate out harmlessly . |
| 5 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 6 | 5 Performance measures should be quantifiable as far as possible ( the development of performance indicators ) . |
| 7 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid as far as I 'm concerned you still look about sixteen . |
| 9 | On the practical level , changes in social policies which reduce women 's claims to maintenance on men but do not recognise that changes in the division of responsibilities for caring between men and women within the family and between the family and the wider community are also required , may in the end be counter-productive as far as women are concerned . |
| 10 | Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the process may be unpredictable as far as individual yields are concerned because the movement in the prices of financial assets is subject to the variable and uncertain expectations of the market . |
| 12 | The optimal reproductive strategy for a male would appear to be mature as quickly as possible , so as to achieve as many matings as possible . |
| 13 | ‘ My dear girl , I may be moronic as far as modern music is concerned , but I have attended classical concerts in my time . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ The facts will be accurate as far as they go . |
| 15 | The band would have to be playing a lot of shows so they are available as often as possible for viewing . |
| 16 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 17 | Shuckskin ? — some foreign name — rather handsome , actually — that such things were possible as far as Japanese women were concerned . |
| 18 | Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned . |
| 19 | Large ferns were present as early as the Upper Devonian and different genera as large or larger were significant components of forests during the Carboniferous to Cenozoic . |
| 20 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 21 | Sometimes , in fact very often , combined operations with our Investigation Department were inconclusive as far as material results were concerned , but a picture would be built up , or a missing piece in a jig-saw puzzle would be provided . |
| 22 | BCCI 's " major customers and shareholders " were aware as early as April 1990 , it said , of widespread fraud and manipulation of banking records within BCCI ; " the precise amount of such losses and fictitious profits [ over the period from 1977 to 1985 ] can not now be established " , but could have approached US$1,000 million . |
| 23 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 24 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |
| 25 | Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept . |
| 26 | You have shown four , inverted commas , delivery Aiden Mouth close inverted commas one hundred , sorry , one thousand , one hundred and ninety two kilos , stop , I think there should be fourteen ninety two kilos , please confirm I am correct as soon as possible , otherwise I agree with all your other figures in this memo , best regards , Sam |
| 27 | The point is that as far as room bookings are concerned |
| 28 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 29 | That 's right as far as the arm is concerned we 've got to be cautious , there . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's OK as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |