Example sentences of "are [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miniature roses , growing no more than 40cm are widely available as house-plants . |
| 2 | Geographers are well represented in industry , commerce , government and the professions , and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees . |
| 3 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 4 | A great many of them , certainly those who are the prime candidates to read our magazine , are strikingly different as fathers than their fathers ; they 're also different lovers , husbands , bosses and sons . |
| 5 | Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music . |
| 6 | Inveterate controllers are rarely adequate as physical lovers , unable to let go or risk too much excitement . |
| 7 | Generalizing about ‘ quangos ’ can be hazardous — even their origins are remarkably diverse as Barker ( 1982 , pp. 7–8 ) observes : |
| 8 | It will have to judge which of the received suggestions are most suitable as well as possibly adding items which have not been suggested . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , developing and maintaining standards of high quality practice in mental health services , especially those providing ‘ round the clock ’ care in hospitals and residential homes , is an uphill struggle and people who depend on others to provide the basic necessities of life for most of their lives are necessarily vulnerable as they are not in a position to complain effectively , ‘ vote with their feet ’ or refuse to be consumers of a bad service . |
| 10 | It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes . |
| 11 | Cleanliness and hygiene are obviously important as is the siting of new animal houses or manure stores in order to obtain maximum dispersion of the odour . |
| 12 | Rights of audience before tribunals are much wider as noted in chapters 12 and 13 . |
| 13 | Trivial names are much better as memory aids as well . |
| 14 | They are especially good as early introductions into newly-matured systems , where their hardiness enables them to survive any initial problems . |
| 15 | Such obligations , usually based upon kinship relations , are highly specific as regards both the actions demanded and the identity of the individual subject to them . |
| 16 | Activator centres : those where radioactive transitions ( luminescence ) are highly probable as the energized centre returns to its ground state . |
| 17 | So-called ‘ button ’ badges , paper print covered with celluloid , are highly collectable as well as being a fascinating guide to social history , says Leicestershire teacher Frank Setchfield , who has a 40,000-strong collection . |
| 18 | In sum , employers are highly significant as actors in their own right and their activities are a critically important variable affecting the direction and development of industrial relations . |
| 19 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 20 | Characins migrate only upstream , but their young are displaced downstream once more ; they are less good as dispersers than catfish , however , as the latter have weaker jaws . |
| 21 | Preadolescent boys and girls of all ages are less identifiable as black , although their ethnicity may be " guessable " for members of their own community . |
| 22 | Inductors exhibit inherent resistance and capacitance and are less convenient as standards than capacitors , particularly when continuous variation is required , as discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2 . |
| 23 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 24 | The antecedents of retrospective completion are less clear as this variable was not significantly associated with any other . |
| 25 | Social pressures upon them to be " good parents " are strong : to complain about the situation would indicate that they are less adequate as mothers or fathers than they should be . |
| 26 | Trees are less important as takers-up of CO 2 than are marine diatoms , and most of the world 's trees grow ( or grew ) in the tropical forests , which were left largely unscathed until recent centuries . |
| 27 | Those that are so general as to encompass many alternative learning paths are at the mercy of the pragmatic needs and preferences of SAT developers and the uncertainties of interpretation by teachers during classroom assessment . |
| 28 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 29 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 30 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |