Example sentences of "as it [be] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming back into the present , I caught the Rolls Royce purr of central London , the purr of privilege , money , power — as far from my little cat 's dying purr as it is possible to be . |
| 2 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 3 | They 're as unique as it is possible to be without splitting at the seams . |
| 4 | Then wander through the maze of streets leading into the old town on your right , to enter a world as far from the busy twentieth century as it is possible to be . |
| 5 | The first to come , and one of the most interesting from Pumfrey 's point of view , was Tom Tedder , who sprawled easily in his chair , seemed as little tensed up as it is possible to be when involved in a murder case , and told them all they needed to know about the teachers ' attitude to the school 's star pupil . |
| 6 | It 's no use charging on with , say , 83 stitches one side of ) and 81 on the other side , as it is difficult to be accurate with the increases or decreases when you are forever making mental adjustments . |
| 7 | Never use detergent for cleaning , as it is difficult to be certain when all traces have been removed . |
| 8 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 9 | Passive smoking — I have advised his parents to stop smoking as it is likely to be aggravating the child 's asthma . |
| 10 | It is hard to be sure how much of this dark stuff Sinclair believes — as it is hard to be sure how much Eliot believed of the lore which accompanies the dark stuff of The Waste Land , another London poem . |
| 11 | I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preaching ; their doctrines are most repulsive , and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors , in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and to do away with all distinctions , as it is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth . |
| 12 | However , a portable 's speed is n't a primary requirement , as it is unlikely to be used for high volumes of work . |
| 13 | It is suggested that such provision be specifically mentioned in the court order as it is unlikely to be accepted voluntarily . |
| 14 | Rugby has survived all these years as a good robust contact sport , and as we are always being told by the medical profession that modern youth is bigger , stronger and fitter than children of previous generations , why ca n't we play rugby as it is supposed to be played rather than a genteel non-contact pass ball ? |
| 15 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 16 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 17 | ‘ Lucky for him , his alibi is as watertight as it 's possible to be , unless the college Principal , half his staff and all his students are Iying . |
| 18 | The best you can do is be as careful as it 's possible to be . ’ |
| 19 | We were brought up to date — or as up to date as it was possible to be . |
| 20 | A year ago he was as weak and unloved a Democratic presidential candidate as it was possible to be . |
| 21 | In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be . |
| 22 | She had been a clerk-receptionist phone-answerer-teamaker and she had got the job through her uncle Bob who was as near to being a friend of Thomas Walby 's as it was possible to be . |
| 23 | Implexion was sure she was nothing more than a spoiled and pampered daughter of a rich house , as ill-prepared for privation as it was possible to be . |
| 24 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 25 | If in the latter one could not tell whether his voice was as bad as it was supposed to be , the former gave ample proof . |
| 26 | More than a third of the undergraduates never ordered books at the university bookshops , and less than a third of the grant provided by the Department of Education and Science was spent as it was supposed to be . |
| 27 | And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it . |
| 28 | ‘ T is not herein as it was wont to be , |
| 29 | Just as it was difficult to be alone so much of the time with such an attractive young woman , despite the size of the ship and our separate cabins . |