Example sentences of "[prep] be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 2 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 3 | Can fiction , Mailer seems to ask , rise to the test of being as disturbed , violent and coded as recent American history ? |
| 4 | ‘ However , his most remarkable acquirement — I speak of before 1914 — was the then almost unknown one of being as good a harpsichordist as a pianist . |
| 5 | It supplies a lot more information about the business , in Mr Hall 's estimation , and the Post Office is in favour of being as open as possible . |
| 6 | Instead of being as high or even higher than the overall rate of self-employment , the rate of self-employment amongst temporary workers is only half that for all workers . |
| 7 | ‘ Did I accuse you of being as hard as nails ? ’ he teased gently , at last , as if reading her mind . |
| 8 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 9 | But Mr Ebbert added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 11 | Your voice is as loud as it is insistent and , as if that were n't bad enough , what you speak of is as boring as it is unseemly . |
| 12 | And we just went up you know just the two of us asks is there anything we can do you know sort of was as simple as that really and it just er grew from that . |
| 13 | Being less than perfect matched with being as perfect as possible was one of the human conundrums that also fired my imagination . |
| 14 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 15 | ‘ There is when the man you choose to fall in love with is as false and unscrupulous as Alexander Vass ! ’ |
| 16 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 17 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 18 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 19 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |
| 20 | Since , whatever western countries believed , it was tsarist policy to keep the Ottoman Empire in being as long as possible , he welcomed foreign assistance in the pursuit of that objective . |
| 21 | ‘ But , given a level playing field , we believe that the work commitments we are agreeing to are as great as can be justified in commercial terms , and hope that this is recognised by Whitehall . ’ |
| 22 | He appeared to be as bored with Lydia 's shoulder as she was herself . |
| 23 | The integrationist view , in parallel with views on the care of other disabled groups , holds that segregation brings the dangers of stigma and neglect , while integration respects the wishes of the dementing to be as normal as possible , brings the stimulus of " normal " company with consequent raising of standards , and enhances the status of sufferers . |
| 24 | The close relationship was partly a consequence of her rapport with President Reagan , and is unlikely to be as close with President Bush . |
| 25 | Here he tracked animals , and we followed , wading waist-deep through swamp water , crawling on our stomachs to be as close as possible . |
| 26 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 27 | The time of year was chosen to be as close as possible to that of the 1979 census to ensure that seasonal mortality effects would not confound results . |
| 28 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 29 | An accident in France would no have to be as serious as Chernobyl to imperil life and health over a wide area in France and its heavily populated neighbours . |
| 30 | The Kent County cricketing team came again , beating Henley 20 — 2 although the Standard bravely reported it ‘ not to be as one-sided as it might appear ’ . |