Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 2 | reduction if the tax is to be as fair as it needs to be . |
| 3 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 4 | The other is to be as organised as possible . |
| 5 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 6 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 7 | The secret is to be as quick as possible and to keep the animal warm afterwards . |
| 8 | The American approach is to be as formal and rigorous as possible with insistence on systematic sampling , correlating and so on . |
| 9 | The aim of this structural grammar approach was to be as concrete and as objective as possible . |
| 10 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 11 | A new identity is to be as important as new social relations , part of the forging of cultural capital through which the city is to be sold . |