Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resenting this , and probably thinking that the requirement would be as short-lived as the fortunes of war , many of the peasants took derisive and ribald names . |
| 2 | He was as rooted as the policemen , as the people in the cars , as Steve and Mr Chan . |
| 3 | It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed . |
| 4 | However , the lyrics , some of which are spoken by a seven-year-old , are annoyingly political and can be as unbelievable as the band 's promotional literature . |
| 5 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 6 | Bargain set menus change with the market and are the best choice : Connaught-trained chef whisks up ultra-light leek terrine layered like lasagne , heaps of appley duck with green pasta tower , and neatly balanced fish casserole a la Dieppoise ; there 's also a meaty crab tart ( £3.95 ) and a choc pave as rich as the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | PENNED-IN by steel barriers between a noisy crowd of gay liberationists and the lonely emissary of the oppressed African Dinkas , few of the street-corner causes besieging this week 's conference seem as hopeless as the campaign for Labour to organise in Ulster . |
| 8 | The duty to protest is as undeniable as the need . |
| 9 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 10 | In every isolated basin of the plateau the life led by the common people day after day was as monotonous as the climate and the landscape ; and everything that deviated from the ordinary , everything strange or unforeseen , was regarded as supernatural . |
| 11 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 12 | the stuff he uses is ve is n't as caustic as the stuff we |
| 13 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 14 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 15 | One essential feature of a switching language is that it be at least as specific as the languages to and from which it supports switching . |
| 16 | Amaranth Wilikins for lunch , Angela Cartwright and Co. for dinner : Grunte hoped that the one would prove as profitable as the other . |
| 17 | Pei 's openness uses the outside so that it seems as inviting as the interior . |
| 18 | But in front of its biggest audience — the match is a 7,100 sell-out — it will look about as inviting as the Addams Family to Ardiles . |
| 19 | Eventually , Purvis sounded as depressed as the Eskimos themselves . |
| 20 | And what makes me admit that I 'm as hapless as the biography to the left suggests ? |
| 21 | Paula Milne 's decision to dramatise these events in book and play form is as admirable as the decision to make ‘ Walter ’ and undoubtedly with equally noble intent . |
| 22 | Why do certain images matter to one , and why is the desire to answer this question as involuntary as the response itself ? |
| 23 | The plot of Raving Beauties is almost as scant as the girls ' costumes . |
| 24 | Abstracts are intended to be as concise as the nature of a particular topic being dealt with allows and not to be detailed rule-books dealing with every conceivable circumstance . ’ |
| 25 | Using records of oral history from these two districts , Gilmour ( 1988 ) has shown that tree cover has actually increased on private farmland over the last 20 years and while there is still an overall loss of forest it is not as acute as the HEDT suggests . |
| 26 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |
| 27 | They are not as professional as the force in Paris or London . |
| 28 | The people who heard the rumour and did not take any action are as guilty as the man who used the clenbuteriol . |
| 29 | Maiolica as weak as the lira |
| 30 | What good is a mason whose arm — mark this ! — whose arm is shrivelled to nothing — as thin as a chicken 's neck it was — as weak as the dribble from a baby 's chin . |