Example sentences of "as [adj] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 2 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 3 | Further , the quaint Kelsenian point that the lawmaker can even determine outside the frame can not offer Finnis much of a target because , if the frame is as indeterminate as to admit of contradictory determinations , then the distinction between a determination within and a determination outwith the frame is meaningless . |
| 4 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |
| 5 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 6 | They are not , accordingly , as assertive as to wage and other claims as would be local workers , and their assertiveness is further tempered by the fact that they are not , with some progressive exceptions , voting and participating citizens . |
| 7 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 8 | To build is as natural as to procreate . |
| 9 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not believe they are going to be as clumsy as to try to introduce this for people actually undergoing surgery , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It was powerfully argued by Bernard Williams , in his Raymond Priestley Lecture delivered in Birmingham in 1956 , that to study the humanities is as useful as to study the sciences . |
| 12 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 13 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 14 | To deny that they are ‘ owned ’ would be as unreal as to deny , on the basis of feudal theory , that land is owned — far more unreal because the owner 's freedom to do what he likes with his shares in public companies is likely to be considerably less fettered . |
| 15 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 16 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |