Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] being as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 2 | In 1870 the architect James Cubitt denounced the Gothic design for chapels as being as ‘ undesirable as it is inappropriate ’ for Protestant worship . |
| 3 | A rape counsellor is calling for a change in the law , which does n't regard such attacks as being as serious as those on women . |
| 4 | In a recent article , C. Fleay and M.L. Sanders have supported Orwell 's general stance attacking the Labour Party policy on the Spanish Civil War as being as ‘ torpid and as ambivalent ’ as that of the National Government . |
| 5 | Leadership is about vision , motivating , managing teams , creating appropriate structures and being as concerned with the people as the tasks . |
| 6 | The great majority saw faithfulness as being as important as ever in marriage and condemned casual sex — more for women than for men . |
| 7 | France is a country which has grave doubts about its moral fibre ; it sees its national character as being as permeable as a colander . |
| 8 | I was having a counsellor and a healer , sticking to my diet , doing my visualization and being as positive as I could be , but nothing was happening officially . |
| 9 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 10 | Many parents describe their children as being as different as ‘ chalk and cheese ’ . |
| 11 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 12 | They must be encouraged to think of their future activities as being as full as , or fuller than , before the attack . |