Example sentences of "be as [adj] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not believe they are going to be as clumsy as to try to introduce this for people actually undergoing surgery , ’ he said . |
| 2 | To deny that they are ‘ owned ’ would be as unreal as to deny , on the basis of feudal theory , that land is owned — far more unreal because the owner 's freedom to do what he likes with his shares in public companies is likely to be considerably less fettered . |
| 3 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 4 | It was powerfully argued by Bernard Williams , in his Raymond Priestley Lecture delivered in Birmingham in 1956 , that to study the humanities is as useful as to study the sciences . |
| 5 | Further , the quaint Kelsenian point that the lawmaker can even determine outside the frame can not offer Finnis much of a target because , if the frame is as indeterminate as to admit of contradictory determinations , then the distinction between a determination within and a determination outwith the frame is meaningless . |
| 6 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 7 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 8 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |
| 9 | To build is as natural as to procreate . |
| 10 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |