Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are signs , however , that Kelly and company may not be quite so entrenched as McKeag would like to think . |
| 2 | The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 . |
| 3 | Second , political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand . |
| 4 | A colleague of mine , in an inner-city team ministry , which faces a thousand funerals a year , can not be as personally involved as he would wish . |
| 5 | This may not be as far fetched as it seems , considering the low nutrient content of tropical forest soil . |
| 6 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |
| 7 | The case highlighted the difficulty facing a mortgagee when a person other than its borrower lives at the mortgaged premises , for such person , as confirmed by this case , may have rights or interests in that property ( although the principles of the case are not being so strictly applied as was first thought — see Bristol & West Building Society v Henning [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 606 and Midland Bank Ltd v Dobson ( 1985 ) NLJ 26 July , 251 ) . |
| 8 | At the time it was poorly lit , with no heating , and it was soon being equally definitely described as ‘ dirty ’ . |
| 9 | Sources of income and wealth had rapidly diversified as the economy developed over the long eighteenth century , so a graduated tax on incomes was a logical development to collect revenue from a merchant and manufacturing class which had hardly been as heavily burdened as either the landowners or the poor consumers . |
| 10 | He saw the Challenge materials as particularly useful for the individual resource-based projects which first-year children were encouraged to develop over several weeks in the summer term : Up to half term they really are very much guided as to the work they do , but as we get to know them better , and as teachers become more confident about letting them maybe work on longer pieces … and go out and get resources themselves , they can go towards more pupil-centred learning . |
| 11 | This can sometimes be rather hastily dismissed as irrelevant to the classroom . |