Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refusal is as understandable as it is naive , but seems to constitute at the same time what amounts to an abnegation of intellectual curiosity about human needs . |
| 2 | His voice was scathing , the twist of his mouth as derisive as she had ever seen and then suddenly , puzzlingly , he smiled . |
| 3 | She must be every bit as cruel as they say , my lady . ’ |
| 4 | The public infrastructure founded years ago when we felt rich patently does not deliver a quality of service we think we deserve — just at the time we realise we are not as rich as we thought . |
| 5 | Only Jonathan had no qualms about paying for her wherever they went , but maybe that was because he was as rich as she was , even if it was all his father 's money . |
| 6 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 7 | Was our friend Sir Vivien as rich as he pretended ? |
| 8 | ‘ He is more hip than any man I know , ’ says film executive Mark Canton , who helped to make Jack as rich as he is today , by persuading him to play The Joker in Batman . |
| 9 | Is everyone in the Agatean Empire as rich as you ? ’ |
| 10 | If she so please , I will take her home with me , and provide her an altar as rich as yours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But since you are just as rich as us … . ’ |
| 12 | Reality , though , need not be as hopeless as we think , even if it does appear to take longer to recover from injuries and the task of regaining fitness seems to take an eternity . |
| 13 | The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear Paige , at my age , nothing seems as hopeless as it does to you . |
| 16 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 17 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |
| 18 | The situation might not be as hopeless as you think . ’ |
| 19 | Once the researcher arrived though , Harrison was as friendly as you like , showed her around the house that he built himself , even showed her the pictures he 'd painted , and best of all , agreed to be a guest on Aspel and Company . |
| 20 | He was n't as friendly as you . ’ |
| 21 | She was about as friendly as you 'd expect , but she told me he was n't home . |
| 22 | I wanted you to believe that I was as grateful as you that the baby had died and solved the problem for us of concealing the birth . |
| 23 | England were nearly as grateful when they dislodged anchor man Shaoib , whose solid batting played an almost as important part in Pakistan 's efforts to take a stranglehold on this Test . |
| 24 | That is not as technical as it may seem . |
| 25 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 26 | He is then described as irous as he comes to tell his tale : Kolve contrasts the obsessiveness of sin and punishment in the Reeve 's Tale with the freedom and lightheartedness of his Miller 's Tale . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 29 | They would n't want someone as little as her . |
| 30 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |