Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] as [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Risk issues should be made as relevant as possible . |
| 2 | Fourth , cycling should be made as safe as possible by using parks and traffic-restrained areas ( Figure 9.5 ) . |
| 3 | This is not cheating but acknowledging that the change-over period is one of difficulty and strain and should be made as attractive as possible . |
| 4 | The size of the gang , however , should be kept as small as possible and should not exceed six members . |
| 5 | The broadcasts should not to be crammed with masses of information — key messages should be kept as simple as possible using humour , drama and celebrities to convey the basic facts . |
| 6 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 7 | Toilet soil pipes are very obtrusive , and should be kept as short as possible , so it may be best to keep the toilet roughly where it is . |
| 8 | As soon as McMahon helped them solve that ( his computations backed the coach , who said the track should be banked as high as his belt buckle at the outside of the turn ) , they called him back with another question : how springy should they make the track ? |
| 9 | The material ( mouse or human ovaries ) must be obtained as fresh as possible . |
| 10 | But it was an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century employers that wages must be kept as low as possible , though intelligent entrepreneurs with international experience , like Thomas Brassey , the railway builder , were beginning to point out that the labour of the well-paid British workman was in fact cheaper than that of the abysmally paid coolie , because his productivity was so much higher . |
| 11 | The courts will always wish to retain a residual and undefined discretion to deal with unexpected cases but the scope for its operation must be kept as narrow as possible . |
| 12 | A joint directive issued by the State Council and the CCP central committee stated that " population control must be considered as important as economic construction " . |
| 13 | Just as a State may act on behalf of another State or other legal entity , so too an organisation might be seen as acting as agent for its member States . |
| 14 | ‘ Well do n't I know just the place we 'll be made as welcome as Christmas ! |
| 15 | If the photon 's momentum were thus determined the electron 's uncertainty Δp could be made as small as we pleased , thus beating , it would seem , the restriction [ 2 ] In fact this does not work because we have to treat the microscope as also subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty . |
| 16 | The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible . |
| 17 | The deeming provisions will mean that during the interim period the vendor will be treated as acting as agent for the purchaser yet the purchaser will have no control over the vendor 's actions . |
| 18 | Perhaps it 's not easy to find an alternative part , so I 'd like to take that from you Chairman if I may and , and be assured that will be reviewed as far as the |
| 19 | Finally , the process of reading itself involves a basic mapping between text world and real world that can be characterised as isomorphic as well . |
| 20 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 21 | However , if the Jumblies could turn that into a sea-going vessel , you should expect that the PC can be made as secure as you want . |
| 22 | The purpose of this paper is to examine how conditions for both sufferers and their carers can be made as satisfactory as possible in " ordinary " and in sheltered housing , and to raise issues that need further examination . |
| 23 | We should try to see space itself as something which can be made as articulate as verbal language . |
| 24 | The children on the roundabout can be made as intricate as your time or patience allows — the effect of the girl 's plaits streaming in the wind is quite easy to achieve . |
| 25 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |