Example sentences of "[vb infin] to be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counsellor should seek to be as warm , supportive and caring as possible . |
| 2 | You do need to be as sharp as possible , because you have to be so quick with your gags . |
| 3 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 4 | Perhaps their timing will not need to be as accurate as that of Vienna . |
| 5 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 6 | Used when one of the branch pipes ( to a central heating radiator , for example ) does n't need to be as large as the main pipe . |
| 7 | Roger Sippl reckons the market for customer service management software and systems will grow to be as big as the Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP ) market is now , and expects there will be room enough for three players . |
| 8 | Wartime rules stated that only token payment plus expenses were to be paid , but clubs , like any other employers , can choose to be as generous or mean with expenses as with wages . |
| 9 | But there are differences in that they are not owned by family dynasties , are not as rigidly organized through central holding companies and do not appear to be as dominant in specific industries . |
| 10 | One , who did not appear to be as badly scorched as the others , stood his ground , and eyed the Robemaker rather challengingly . |
| 11 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 12 | Councillor Begg continued : ‘ Although at first glance , the council tax does not appear to be as complicated as the community charge , it is still a very complex tax compared to the rates . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 14 | This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom . |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes . |
| 17 | Lydia thought moodily that she could n't hope to be as boring as Dr Wyn if she tried all night . |
| 18 | But you do n't have to be as colourful a performer or as vivid a personality as these two to make an interesting subject . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is a tiny hole at the end , and if you go into this hole ( you 'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so , and they are minute : thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig ) , you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls . |
| 21 | The high cost of structured CPE : myth and reality CPE does n't have to be as expensive as many firms would have you believe |
| 22 | But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System-and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate . |
| 23 | It does n't have to be as simple as that because PGA offers other options too . |
| 24 | If we could have an agreement on reductions in the number of warheads , it would show clearly that although we possess nuclear weapons , their scale does not have to be as great as we considered in the recent past . |
| 25 | The back 4/5 will have to be as solid as they have looked in recent games . |
| 26 | and all that I mean you know they 're not hav they do n't have to be as committed |
| 27 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 28 | Our treatment in this chapter will try to be as informal as possible in order to be comprehensible . |
| 29 | Er , President I 'm going to say the time factor and I 'll try to be as brief as possible . |
| 30 | This might involve a prolonged search and thus discourage the specialisation that is so important in increasing output : in a barter economy , an individual would try to be as self-sufficient as possible because of the problems of trading . |