Example sentences of "to be just as [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Royal Family is showing itself to be just as vulnerable to social change as the rest of us . |
| 2 | But as the test is that A must use no more force than is necessary , and as this necessity varies with the facts of each case , self-help is likely to be just as dangerous a remedy here as elsewhere . |
| 3 | HSE experts in LASMO need to be just as skilful at managing money as in managing health , safety and environmental issues the conference heard . |
| 4 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 5 | Surely if Nick finds Clare attractive first thing in the morning , then nine o'clock at night out to be just as good ( or even better if you 're Clare ) ? |
| 6 | The good news is that , once you have given up smoking and sufficient time has elapsed for the nicotine to clear your system , your memory and mental ability is likely to be just as good as that of someone who has never smoked . |
| 7 | The pair gained rave reviews for their Belfast concert earlier this week and are likely to be just as good tomorrow night . |
| 8 | The classic realists could be shown to be just as transgressive and problematic as the modernists . |
| 9 | However , there is likely to be just as close a contest at Chambers Park where Portadown face Queen 's University . |
| 10 | This is to be just as dogmatic as relativists accuse religious people of being . |
| 11 | At first , finding P seems to be just as difficult as finding the two exchanges as P also moves four pieces . |
| 12 | The trading conditions for the Group 's business will continue to be just as difficult in the coming year as they were in 1992 , and will continue to provide us all with significant challenges and problems . |
| 13 | During the next year Sally fell in and out of love a half dozen times and each time it proved to be just as disastrous . |
| 14 | Some take a highly individualistic approach , regarding child abuse and neglect as primarily the actions of particular persons ; others adopt a broader perspective , seeing poverty , disadvantage and exploitation to be just as abusive as individual cruelties . |
| 15 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 16 | People who had said — during another part of the interview — that they preferred the smallest possible individual instalments turned out to be just as likely to switch to a shorter repayment schedule ( given lower APR and credit costs ) as people who had said they preferred the shortest possible repayment schedule . |
| 17 | In class warfare , for instance , oppressed people easily find themselves claiming to be just as noble or gentlemanly as their supposed betters , without properly criticising existing ideas of nobility or gentility . |
| 18 | Similarly the A11 between Thetford and Norwich is likely to be just as old as the nearby so-called Icknield Way , but we do not know , nor is there any way of finding out . |
| 19 | The polar habitats we see today are likely to be just as transitory as those that preceded them . |
| 20 | IRMA LA DOUCE promises to be just as vital and exciting as Century Theatre 's fabulous production of CABARET last year . |
| 21 | Whose name the place is in does n't matter very much ; what 's more important is how long the marriage has lasted , what contributions each of you has made ( not just financial — the law considers the home-maker who brings up the children to be just as important as the breadwinner who brings home the money ) , and probably the most important factor , the future of the children . |
| 22 | It seems to be just as important to show the child what is happening when he or she makes an " informed " contextual guess in reading . |
| 23 | Cultural attributes ( English language skills , style of life , adoption of US or European rather than local ‘ attitudes and values ’ ) appear to be just as important as more formal job skills in the promotion of women as well as men in the TNCs in developing countries . |
| 24 | The widower strikes no such fear into the heart , even though , in reality , he may turn out to be just as big a responsibility . |
| 25 | A losing attitude will be one that says , ‘ Today is going to be just as bad as yesterday — boring , hard work and uninteresting . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure the England side are going to be just as tough though , are n't they ? |
| 27 | The theme which Dodd points to was just as common when the 1904 regulations were established . |