Example sentences of "as [adj] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 2 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 3 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 4 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |
| 5 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 6 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 7 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | The figures also suggest that if you hold a qualification , you are half as likely to be unemployed as someone who has none . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , it might be as well to be ready in advance with her own suggestion of a rendezvous next time Veronica called . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't sound as though he 's involved in it , but it 's as well to be careful . |
| 12 | Practically speaking , this may not be important except at very brief exposure durations , but it is as well to be aware of the problem . |
| 13 | It is as well to be clear on this . |
| 14 | It is as well to be clear about two charges made by the Left to explain Allende 's downfall . |
| 15 | Before looking at some examples of tool using among animals , it would be as well to be clear about what we mean by the term . |
| 16 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 17 | It is just as necessary to be aware of the role which desire , displacement and fantasy play in our own practices , as it is in relation to the perverse ideo-logic of racism itself . |
| 18 | ‘ You know that is n't true , ’ Harry reproached her , although his heart was beating with excitement at the thought that Madeleine was as anxious to be alone with him as he with her . |
| 19 | These two are about as near to being old pals as Judas Iscariot and the Pope . |
| 20 | Until last month , Kenyon was music critic of the Observer , in which role he was as ready to be critical of his new paymaster as any other critic . |