Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 2 | The most surprising feature of these lamellae is that while the molecular chains may be as long as 1000 nm , the direction of the chain axis is across the thickness of the platelet . |
| 3 | Nor are the inner cities the only areas suffering from economic decline and physical decay — the coalfields of County Durham and South Wales come to mind , and the problems in some of the overspill estates on the outskirts of the cities may be as great as those in the centre . |
| 4 | Ambipolar diffusion times may be as high as 10 8 yr for these clouds . |
| 5 | For example , in our manufacturing example , increasing exports reduces home sales and so we might use the criterion that exports should be as close as possible to their goal : 12 . |
| 6 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 7 | Nature reserves must be as concerned with pro-active ( as opposed to passive ) management as with fences . |
| 8 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 9 | He does so in the wake of a report confirming apparent irregularities in the hardest-hit syndicates , run by the now-defunct Gooda Walker agency , where total losses could be as high as £400 million . |
| 10 | Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |
| 11 | Water , water everywhere with the shares set to soar Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |
| 12 | Department of Energy analyses also imply that the scope for energy savings could be as high as 60 per cent , although a more realistic figure is around 20 per cent . |
| 13 | See the tailors , shoemakers , bookbinders , gold beaters , printers , bricklayers , coatmakers , hatters , curriers , masons , whitesmiths , none of these trades receive less than 30s a week , and from that to five guineas this is all done by combination , without it their trades would be as bad as yours . |
| 14 | Not all our units and sequences will be as long or as detailed as the foregoing examples . |
| 15 | Through the selective use of marketing techniques , particularly through listening and responding , schools can be as effective at marketing as the most successful commercial organisations . |
| 16 | Teachers in comprehensive schools can be as imaginative and as devoted as in any other kind of school . |
| 17 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 18 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 19 | The returns might be as quick and much higher he would suggest . |
| 20 | Supermarkets may be as surprised as anyone to find themselves selling no more than 25 per cent of national production by 1997 . |
| 21 | His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form . |
| 22 | A study of the rural North East showed that critical thresholds may be as low as 120 persons , below which there is a precipitous fall-off in all services ( Edwards 1964 ) . |
| 23 | It might only be pebbles against Patriots , and the Inspirals might be as interested in the ephemera of psychedelic pop and training shoes as they are in delivering any deeper message , but to their new American fans the Inspirals represent a special hope , an idea that something more sensitive than Guns N' Roses and Madonna might thrive . |
| 24 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 25 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 26 | Filling in these forms correctly will ensure that the first Council Tax bills will be as accurate as possible and take account of any entitlements to discount , exemptions or rebates . |
| 27 | Sir , — I believe to the majority of people the addition of VAT to domestic fuel bills will be as welcome as a large hole in a lifeboat would be . |
| 28 | America was hailed as the ‘ great English Republic ’ and orators hoped that England would become a country in which ‘ all denominations will be as free from State patronage or persecution as they are in the great land over which waves ‘ the star-spangled banner ’ ’ . |
| 29 | The impulse to partner parents can be as strong for children as the temptation for parents to confide in their children as if they were partners . |
| 30 | As I mentioned previously , there are six major plates covering the surface of this planet , and ten or so that are classified as minor ( though even minor plates can be as big as entire continents ) . |