Example sentences of "nearly as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown 's half-room turned out to be nearly as dark as the basement because of the cardboard panes stuck in the window where the glass had been blown out . |
| 2 | The painting is not nearly as good as the recent Young Contemporaries show in Manchester , where the sculpture was non-existent . |
| 3 | The old , blue pound notes looked large and important , but not nearly as impressive as the white and over-sized fivers with which Johnny 's wallet was comfortably stocked . |
| 4 | Their remains have now been found in rocks that are about 500 million years old , very nearly as ancient as the Burgess Shales . |
| 5 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 6 | The street Nevil lived in was n't nearly as nice as the McNairs ' . |
| 7 | ‘ It is far too defensive and not nearly as appealing as the American version . |
| 8 | A bucket of slops was thrown over the edge , I did n't enquire of the contents , followed by a five-point turn , the boat was nearly as wide as the canal ! |
| 9 | He was walking nearly as zombie-like as the man with the barrow . |
| 10 | He was nearly as tall as the ceiling and hardly had to reach . |
| 11 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 12 | However , a further year of practice and they are nearly as proficient as the adults . |
| 13 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 14 | For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone . |
| 15 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 16 | Some of the pro bags weighed nearly as much as the clubs . |
| 17 | Thackeray ‘ s The Virginians and The Newcomes handsomely bound in three-quarter morocco gilt and in half-calf gilt , in each case with marbled sides ; impressive , but not worth nearly as much as the humble original parts in paper wrappers . |
| 18 | It was a pleasant interlude , and we did not mind the delay nearly as much as the captain did . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether it 's actually correct or not but a number of players in Byrne 's team ( Shamrock Rovers , a team I dislike nearly as much as the scum ) have been linked with moves to Elland Road . |
| 20 | I will argue that the affiliation is not nearly as simple as the formulation implies . |
| 21 | I had tried this myself and knew it was not nearly as simple as the village boys made it seem . |
| 22 | The echoing impact of boot with pavement broke a silence nearly as terrifying as the noisy wail of the siren earlier , and drew heads to basement windows here and there up Cliveden Place . |
| 23 | The final list of contributors is nearly as surreal as the contents themselves . |
| 24 | Optical tablets using infra red beams to detect the position of a stylus are not nearly as sensitive as the other systems but are quite adequate for allowing a finger to be used to select an item from a program menu . |
| 25 | The setting is nearly as horrible as the inn-parlour in Great Expectations — and each is perhaps more acutely in love than any character in English fiction since Pip . |
| 26 | For a start many of the buildings were nearly as old as the organisation . |
| 27 | To be locked inextricably in the overhang would have been nearly as disastrous as a dismasting . |
| 28 | At the far side was a second gate , nearly as massive as the first . |
| 29 | Nor indeed were many unmodified humans nearly as robust as the cadets had long since become . |
| 30 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |