Example sentences of "to [be] as great " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But , given a level playing field , we believe that the work commitments we are agreeing to are as great as can be justified in commercial terms , and hope that this is recognised by Whitehall . ’
2 ‘ However he 's still young and has the potential to be as great . ’
3 The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced .
4 In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves .
5 The former will generally be more straightforward to use for word processing but may not have any database management system programs Some word processors do have other programs available but the choice is unlikely to be as great as that relating to one of the popular micros Second .
6 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 .
7 Turning to Bridget , she sensed the other woman 's hesitation to be as great as her own .
8 Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded .
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