Example sentences of "as [adj] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear Paige , at my age , nothing seems as hopeless as it does to you . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 3 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
| 4 | This last ambition may not be as absurd as it looks ; Sigistrix was , after all , the grandson of Theodoric . |
| 5 | Erm I think probably yes the debate has been probably as extensive as it needs to be . |
| 6 | But even this is not as extensive as it appears at first sight for , in conducting an investigation on a complaint , the Tribunal must apply ‘ the principles applicable by a court on an application for judicial review ’ . |
| 7 | This might be achieved using the power of guardianship , often regarded as toothless as it has no power to enforce medication . |
| 8 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 9 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think you may find that in future that party is not quite as strong as it has been . ’ |
| 10 | The decoration is therefore not quite as free as it looks , in reality forming part of an evolved construction . |
| 11 | ‘ That as unpleasant as it sounds ? ’ |
| 12 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 13 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 14 | Dressed by Mainbocher , painted by Dali and fêted by writers and the fashionable world , C.Z. is American high society as high as it comes . |
| 15 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 16 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 17 | GRID — a cassette of interlocking Hytrel strings fitted into the midsole — is the highlighted technology , but it 's not alone in a shoe which looks as different as it feels . |
| 18 | To Gray , this constant flying is not as inconvenient as it sounds . |
| 19 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 20 | Yet neither her choice nor Julia 's is as one-sided as it seems . |
| 21 | But like every other species , including the human , the bee is just as clever as it needs to be . |
| 22 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |
| 23 | It is not as simple as it sounds , but a shared openness to God in life and in marriage makes every difference . |
| 24 | This task is by no means as simple as it sounds . |
| 25 | This is not quite as simple as it sounds : the camera operators have to shoot in such a way that their two pictures will edit together , and skilled editing is required . |
| 26 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 27 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 28 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 29 | But it 's not as simple as it appears . |
| 30 | In reality , the calculation is not as simple as it appears in ( 8.33 ) . |