Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a function of ageing or simply that the mode of communication may become more restrained and that the emotional experiences are as rich as ever ? |
| 2 | Pickles is as hopeless as ever ! |
| 3 | Any CD owner knows that they are n't as indestructible as once claimed . |
| 4 | America may have changed Presidents a year ago , but the fiscal thicket remains as inpenetrable as ever . |
| 5 | Shipped to the UK some weeks before Woburn , ‘ AQJ was re-assembled here by Nigel Arnot from Camden , Sydney , and showed that she was still as agile as ever by taking part in the Tiger Moth aerobatic competition at Woburn . |
| 6 | She has monopolized your attention ; even if it is scolding it is rewarding ( after all the behaviour is as persistent as ever ) . |
| 7 | And descending from the dizzy heights of Labour 's megalithic conference platform , he was as caustic as ever of the slick political selling job it symbolised . |
| 8 | Charities can reclaim pay repayment of basic rates of tax on gifts of as little as even two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 9 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 10 | But Floyd 's air of mock humility , constant stream of self-reflexive comments ( 'Quick cut away ; lots and lots of minutes have gone by now ’ ) and bossy remarks to the cameraman were as refreshing as ever . |
| 11 | And the anomalies of a divided Ireland remain as absurd as ever : both bits can be almost equally foreign to the casual English visitor , are often equally hostile to Westminster , and have long been equally illiberal on moral issues like abortion and homosexuality . |
| 12 | It 's probably not as preferable as just having a normal dad . ’ |
| 13 | With Beatrice his life was as turbulent as ever . |
| 14 | ‘ As upstanding as ever . |
| 15 | Although the Commonwealth immigration acts since 1962 had slowed the inward flow from Commonwealth countries to a trickle , the problems of assimilating the black population now resident were as acute as ever , especially during the period of rapidly rising unemployment . |
| 16 | The need for sustainable health , education and welfare services is as acute as ever . |
| 17 | Nothing has changed — they are as tied as before , but they are now excluded from the beer orders , so that they have no guest beers . |
| 18 | To us , it was as normal as home . |
| 19 | A quick curtain of water fell across the plains but by the end of the day they were as dry as ever . |
| 20 | Only Phil Aldrich had seemed as placid as ever , even after being interrupted in the middle of his lunch , and thereafter being seated in the Lancaster Room , writing busily on the hotel notepaper ; and being interrupted just the once , and then only briefly , by Janet Roscoe — the latter intent , it appeared , on fomenting further dissatisfaction whenever possible . |
| 21 | As I write , one of the overworked words is ‘ basically ’ , and that tedious word ‘ problem ’ is still as rampant as ever . |
| 22 | The slave trade was as rampant as ever , and Ptolemy Philadelphus had to intervene to prohibit attempts at enslaving the free people of Palestine ( Sammelbuch 8008 ) . |
| 23 | The ‘ moo-ooooo ’ , however , was as loud as ever . |
| 24 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
| 25 | The Anglo-American special relationship , on the other hand , is as alive as ever , and has made it possible for us to buy advanced US weapon systems like Polaris and Trident on very favourable terms . |
| 26 | It is not surprising , therefore , that the Law Commission has recommended no reform of the parol evidence rule , declaring that the " rule " is not as extensive as traditionally expounded ( see Law of ContractThe Parol Evidence Rule , Law Commission No 154 ( 1986 ) ) . |
| 27 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 28 | His master , he thought , was as strange as ever , close , careful , even secretive and still intent on cleanliness . |
| 29 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
| 30 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with simple arm spine articulation surfaces on the lateral arm plates , not forming a comma-shaped surface ; disk delicate , sack-like covered with small thin semitransparent scales ; radial shields absent or internally concealed ; jaws as broad as long often with numerous flattened distally projecting papillae arranged in two or more rows covering the surface of the jaw ; arms noded , often standing vertically around the disk position found in preserved specimens ; tentacle pores large open with up to five tentacle scales ; arm spines often numerous varying in length . |