Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind .
2 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 ?
3 Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge .
4 But obviously it must be necessary to waive the statutory sectors , versus the non statutory , so it is n't er possible this year , perhaps to put in as we might do if were to be as imprudent as the opposition parties .
5 He said it 's to be as realistic as we dare to make it .
6 It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill .
7 I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The other is to be as organised as possible .
11 The secret is to be as quick as possible and to keep the animal warm afterwards .
12 The American approach is to be as formal and rigorous as possible with insistence on systematic sampling , correlating and so on .
13 reduction if the tax is to be as fair as it needs to be .
14 The aim of this structural grammar approach was to be as concrete and as objective as possible .
15 What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them .
16 The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible .
17 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 .
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