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 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 9 | The rhetoric of ‘ community ’ , however , often serves to obscure as much as to clarify the changes that have occurred . |
| 10 | Because plans set performance standards and create expectations in the political controllers , they are used to manipulate the external environment as much as to generate internal management commitment . |
| 11 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 12 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 13 | As much as to say , well if you need a lift home , just let me know . |
| 14 | He gave her a cynical look , as much as to say that he only half believed her . |
| 15 | So he said he did n't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we 'll go to the Regal tonight . |
| 16 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 17 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 18 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 19 | The cat gave a whimper , as much as to tell its mistress what a terrible time it had had . |
| 20 | That 's as much as to tell me that you would be hovering round me like a vulture , waiting till the breath was out of my body , that you might go and marry someone else . ’ |
| 21 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 22 | I shook his hand to calm him as much as to show respect . |
| 23 | To build is as natural as to procreate . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not believe they are going to be as clumsy as to try to introduce this for people actually undergoing surgery , ’ he said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |