Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for church raffles , football club sweeps and fairground tombola , they are fizzy lemonade in comparison and football pools have always seemed to me as harmless as the Christmas sherry . |
| 2 | They survived the bombing en route and reported to me as cheeky as ever . |
| 3 | Which was that Ellen had sworn herself to celibacy while she worked as a cook , a decision that was to me as eccentric as it was both incomprehensible and frustrating . |
| 4 | He laughed , but she was pleased to see that he was fast becoming his normal self , this unwonted display of humility being hidden , perhaps only ever to be shown again to someone as close as her . |
| 5 | To someone as proud as Angel , this , and the result of the war , had been the ultimate humiliation . |
| 6 | Middle Eastern people are comfortable talking to you as close as six inches away . |
| 7 | And I 'll get on to the and we 'll get them an appointment out to you as quick as we can . |
| 8 | Why on earth should cats have any reactions at all to something as sophisticated as human music ? |
| 9 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 10 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 11 | They called on Mr Walter Campbell and in their " A Highland Tour " published in 1845 reported that " at the time of our visit , as we learned afterwards , he was close to the painful discovery which , it was said , was to him as unexpected as it was unwelcome a discovery of his utter insolvency ! |
| 12 | But sometimes , on the darkest nights , when the waves pounded the shingle like bursts of distant gunfire , both the science and the symbol would seem to him as transitory as those drowned lives and he would find himself wondering if this great hulk would one day yield to the sea , like the wave-smashed concrete from the last war defences , and like them become a broken symbol of man 's long history on this desolate coast . |
| 13 | ‘ And the Guinea Coast afore that ? ’ she prompted , hoping for tales about unknown Africa that seemed to her as strange as the moon and as far away . |
| 14 | The air , fresh and cold , smelled to her as sweet as a sea breeze . |
| 15 | Not that Luke Hunter would ever descend to anything as crude as rape . |
| 16 | He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it . |
| 17 | But as Arafat and his colleagues knew full well , the Lebanese state was not beholden to anything so exotic as parliamentary democracy . |
| 18 | In one version it is the highly particularized action of networks of people in the network of streets that is Dublin on one day and another , suggested to us as early as the title and continued through innumerable associations and hints , it is a vast and teeming world through which and erratic journeying is taking its course in space and time , inner and outer . |
| 19 | Well I I mean it does n't matter to us as far as that goes as long as they are erm |