Example sentences of "be as [adj] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | In the conclusion to Chapter 2 , I suggested that the gulf between the view of humans as free and choice-making , on the one hand , and determined by forces outside of their control , on the other , may not be as unbridgeable as it seems . |
2 | Surprisingly , this task may not be as hopeless as it seems . |
3 | This last ambition may not be as absurd as it looks ; Sigistrix was , after all , the grandson of Theodoric . |
4 | Will it be as easy as it looks on paper ? |
5 | Say what you like about the Ryder Cup and The Belfry , if it was n't for the 9th , 10th and 18th holes , it would be as average as it looks . |
6 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
7 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
8 | A spiritual void needs to be satisfied , so what is offered as serious and sacrosanct must be as good as it pretends . |
9 | The contour lines on the map were remarkably close together for the final descent but we decided it could n't be as bad as it looked . |
10 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
11 | The problem may not , however , be as difficult as it seems . |
12 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |
13 | It seems that the outlook for smaller businesses may not now be as bleak as it has been so recently . ’ |
14 | Phoebe relapsed into little disturbed ‘ ohs ’ rubbing her thin fingers and slithering to the edge of her chair , while Jess wondered what in the name of the Devil a syndicate was , and if a Frolic would be as jolly as it sounded . |
15 | ‘ Spending hours lying in the glorious sunshine need n't be as idle as it looks , ’ she says . |
16 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
17 | reduction if the tax is to be as fair as it needs to be . |
18 | The answer might not be as obvious as it seems . |