Example sentences of "something [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh yes , they would pour out their music for something so magical as this . ’ |
| 2 | Well , go on , do n't stop there , I 'm sure the rest is just as fascinating — presumably that , yes , you knew Ryan , but when you flew over to find out why the hell he could n't get something so simple as planning permission you decided to do something about it yourself , and there was gullible little Hilary , all ready and waiting to fall into your arms . |
| 3 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 4 | ‘ When we arrived here , ’ said Fenella , and spared a thought for the absurdity of these words , because the manner of their arriving had been something so remarkable as to defy explanation or description . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I think I 'll have one , ’ said Brian , and Scarlet saw that things were even worse than they seemed , for now his tone was artificial : he was making conversation about something so trivial as pouring himself a drink . |
| 6 | It was a perfunctory smile , which gradually changed into something more intimate as she stared quizzically at Jacqui . |
| 7 | For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud . |
| 8 | Not only the money won , but the rank order of success among strategies , depends upon which strategies happen to have been submitted ; depends , in other words , upon something as arbitrary as human whim . |
| 9 | They are nevertheless couched in the rhetoric of democracy : they invoke the people and the people 's will as what legitimates the regime , or the policy or the action — which may even be something as arbitrary as a coup d'etat . |
| 10 | Something as daft as that . |
| 11 | So really you just wan na get something as cheap as possible and |
| 12 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 13 | He hated lying to her , even over something as innocent as this , but it was important that she did n't get involved . |
| 14 | Still , a person would be a fool to go after something as dangerous as a wounded wolf armed only with sympathy . |
| 15 | Perhaps by something as ordinary as a British Telecom radio-pager . |
| 16 | To do something as cruel as this to a member of your own family can not be something a fair and just woman would do . |
| 17 | I was a little afraid , but this was something really important ; nobody could make me get married after I had discovered something as strange as this . |
| 18 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 19 | The word brezkr may mean something as general as British , but seems usually to denote the Welsh . |
| 20 | I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. , |
| 21 | Something as small as a brisk fifteen-minute walk each day can make a big difference to health . |
| 22 | A kestrel 's prey might be something as small as a beetle , and as they tend to hover twenty or thirty feet above the ground , their eyesight and the accuracy of their dive are both awe-inspiring . |
| 23 | The reader may be doomed to disappointment in reading through an article with wide contextual terms of reference if looking for something as simple as descriptions of works of art , their interpretation and evaluation . |
| 24 | Something as simple as a mug can turn a handful of pansies into a vivid display . |
| 25 | Take something as simple as a backdrop . |
| 26 | Something as simple as setting building standards that improve insulation could cut heating bills , but Lovins suggested that more far-reaching effects could come from thinking about the energy used in the whole process of building . |
| 27 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 28 | Children often bring a new toy or special gift they have received to show their teacher and friends , and this may become the basis for a collection , as may something as simple as a pretty sweet wrapper or even an old shoe . |
| 29 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 30 | Research shows that something as simple as a bowl of cornflakes can improve moods dramatically , one researcher saying that the dose of carbohydrate acted on women like a tranquilliser . |