Example sentences of "as [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large units are as economically efficient as small ones , and have a greater functional capacity ; 3 . |
| 2 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 3 | Parts of Northamptonshire did not , for this reason , go as uniformly green as Leicestershire after enclosure . |
| 4 | They gave even better against the paramilitary organisations and political groupings of the majority British population which is as instinctively law-abiding as that of any other part of the United Kingdom and probably even quicker to disassociate itself from senseless or politically motivated violence . |
| 5 | One was as strikingly negative as the other was positive . |
| 6 | In the event , the reality was as different and as perversely non-emblematic as it could be . |
| 7 | Her hatred — if it had even been that — had turned out to be as intensely personal as her love and an intrinsic part of it , Maria acknowledged privately . |
| 8 | Not as crazily experimental as Celtic Frost , not as overtly grunge fixated as Obituary , but for sheer controlled power , Cerebral Fix scoop the lot . |
| 9 | Not as crazily experimental as Celtic Frost , not as overtly grunge fixated as Obituary , but for sheer controlled power , Cerebral Fix scoop the lot . |
| 10 | Julian , you 're as lovably eccentric as ever . |
| 11 | By arranging these materials into a machine-readable form , the aim of this project is to make them as widely accessible as possible to other researchers working in this and adjacent fields of historical enquiry . |
| 12 | Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible . |
| 13 | The training of nurses to prescribe will be vital if the service is to be as widely available as we want it to be and if it is genuinely to benefit patients . |
| 14 | I would be interested to experience a situation where medical intervention is not as widely available as it is in Great Britain . |
| 15 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 16 | But it can hardly be said that the relationship between the two sectors has been as mutually productive as it might be . |
| 17 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 18 | To be with Fred was as naturally convivial as to be with Willie . |
| 19 | Christina could hardly recall meeting anyone as naturally beautiful as Pauline Bascombe . |
| 20 | They are as morally conservative as their parents . |
| 21 | With the latter , each case , each murder , was a duel with a murderer who , of necessity , had to be almost as brilliantly clever as they were themselves . |
| 22 | This year 's IBM/Scottish Science Library Lecture , the third in a series sponsored by IBM ( UK ) Ltd , proved to be as highly successful as its predecessors . |
| 23 | This year 's IBM/SSL Lecture proved to be as highly successful as its predecessors . |
| 24 | ‘ But we 'd just like them to know we are as terribly unhappy as they are . ’ |
| 25 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 26 | Nothing seemed as carelessly enjoyable as before . |
| 27 | Is it that some of your shots do not look as pictorially attractive as they might ? |
| 28 | GILLIAN said that in her opinion their was just as cumbersome and just as obviously diplomatic as his or her , but why was the meeting being so squeamish about making a point anyway ? |
| 29 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 30 | However , even at the hypothetical level , the proposition is not as obviously true as Goody seems to assume . |