Example sentences of "can be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cork and Sam Quigg of Belfast proving that the Irish can be as alert and constructive as the rest of Britain . |
| 2 | Playing your part can be as simple as being a good neighbour — keeping an eye on a neighbour 's house while they 're away ; or even just letting the Police know if you see someone acting suspiciously around cars or property . |
| 3 | Where appropriate , pointing to the area on one 's own body is helpful or using visual aids , which can be as simple as drawing a diagram while explaining the location of the part . |
| 4 | Business plans can be as simple or as complicated as the designer wishes , but their prime function is to set well-defined goals and to identify the resources in terms of time , finance , accommodation , equipment , personnel and training that will be required to meet the objectives . |
| 5 | ( left ) Dressing up or down this versatile outfit can be as simple as changing your shoes — comfy espadrilles for daytime , sophisticated heels for evenings . |
| 6 | David Seymour says it can be as simple as ABC . |
| 7 | In other cases , an attack can be linked to another infection , such as Thrush , but it can be as simple as ‘ holding on ’ too long before going to the lavatory , or wearing tight fitting trousers or underwear — creating the warm , moist atmosphere germs love . |
| 8 | This can be as simple as good press publicity coverage for a trade event or a sales incentive scheme . |
| 9 | They can be as simple or as elaborate as you like , depending on the fabric , the heading , the pelmet , whether they hang free or are tied back and , of course , on your taste and what suits the room . |
| 10 | The snags they sort out can be as simple as making sure a contractor understands plans properly to having to re-design equipment found to need modification when it is being installed . |
| 11 | A skilled endoscopist is essential , but the equipment can be as simple as a standard endoscope and an injection needle . |
| 12 | Organisation of space can be as simple as considering carefully how you place a single wooden table and chair — but it is always important . |
| 13 | Tuck the clothes around the bodies — they can be as simple or as detailed as you like . |
| 14 | To have five or six open questions about the Sunday teaching ( or just one question ) and to say where we are at in this area of Christian life can be as helpful as anything in preventing people going round in circles and in encouraging mutual accountability and mutual ministry . |
| 15 | Employment agencies , personnel officers and development consultants all declare stoutly that people over 35 can be as adaptable and able to learn as anyone else . |
| 16 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 17 | A bag which is too hot can be as uncomfortable as one which is too cold and while you can always add extra clothing when the temperature drops , it is n't necessarily convenient or desirable . |
| 18 | See if you can be as clever as you were yesterday . |
| 19 | I can be as upset as I like , I suppose ? ’ |
| 20 | Unfortunately nonsense remains , however many people accept or pretend to accept it ; and it has a nasty habit of exploding in a nation 's face with effects which can be as devastating as those of a nuclear weapon . |
| 21 | Turn around times for replacing a standard outsole can be as low as 30 minutes , but even when more complicated adjustments and corrections have to be made , shoes are usually back on your feet the same day . |
| 22 | The Air Europe ‘ moneysaver ’ operates from Gatwick and can be as low as £99 to Gibraltar and £106 to Palma . |
| 23 | Manufacturing accounts for a relatively small proportion of employment in rural areas , and in the more remote regions it has been estimated that this can be as low as 10–20 per cent ( Gilg 1976 ) . |
| 24 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
| 25 | Giving a 40000 stadium to hunslet whose crowds can be as low as 700 is stupid . |
| 26 | His enemies are not the fearsome ape Donkey Kong or King Bowser the dragon — though they can be as deadly . |
| 27 | But neither the board nor the judiciary can be as close , or as sensitive , to public opinion as a minister responsible to Parliament and to the electorate . |
| 28 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 29 | You can be as serious about it as you want to be . |
| 30 | We are often also faced , however , with the need to tolerate contradictions , not to strive for an illusory or impossible ideal , and to avoid self-punishing forms of anxiety , defence and guilt ( and feminist guilt can be as punishing as any other kind ) . |