Example sentences of "[prep] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 2 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 3 | It supplies a lot more information about the business , in Mr Hall 's estimation , and the Post Office is in favour of being as open as possible . |
| 4 | As he grew to manhood , Vologsky had accepted that state of being as both normal and even desirable . |
| 5 | Can fiction , Mailer seems to ask , rise to the test of being as disturbed , violent and coded as recent American history ? |
| 6 | On the most general level Foucault 's society of normalisation is in danger of being as rigidly functional , tending towards a necessary social equilibrium , as Talcott Parsons ' , particularly as both the resistances and the individual internalisations are not specified : social control seems to be absolute . |
| 7 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 8 | Instead of being as high or even higher than the overall rate of self-employment , the rate of self-employment amongst temporary workers is only half that for all workers . |
| 9 | ‘ However , his most remarkable acquirement — I speak of before 1914 — was the then almost unknown one of being as good a harpsichordist as a pianist . |
| 10 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 11 | But Mr Ebbert added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did I accuse you of being as hard as nails ? ’ he teased gently , at last , as if reading her mind . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ Market conditions in Europe are worsening overall and our expectation is that 1993 has little hope of being as productive and profitable for the company as last year . ’ |
| 14 | Your voice is as loud as it is insistent and , as if that were n't bad enough , what you speak of is as boring as it is unseemly . |
| 15 | And we just went up you know just the two of us asks is there anything we can do you know sort of was as simple as that really and it just er grew from that . |
| 16 | It was agreed that a steering group , led by HCIMA , would develop an action plan to bring this education/industry interface into being as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Being less than perfect matched with being as perfect as possible was one of the human conundrums that also fired my imagination . |
| 18 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 19 | ‘ There is when the man you choose to fall in love with is as false and unscrupulous as Alexander Vass ! ’ |
| 20 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 21 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |
| 22 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 23 | She could n't get out of the pit , but somebody knew she was there : her therapist gave her something of the same feeling but was far from being as much fun . |
| 24 | What saves computing from being as big a social embarrassment as accountancy , tax inspecting and supporting Manchester United is the fact that it 's possible to make contact with other Leeds fans at home and abroad by means of the vast electronic networks which interconnect thousands of computers right round the world . |
| 25 | Since , whatever western countries believed , it was tsarist policy to keep the Ottoman Empire in being as long as possible , he welcomed foreign assistance in the pursuit of that objective . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Magazine profiles may be carefully written and prepared , though their facts are unlikely to be as thoroughly checked as in books . |
| 28 | This year it promises to be as big as ever , with 90% of stands space already booked . |
| 29 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 30 | Many reckon the enormous cost , estimated to be as much as £10 billion , is too great for most of the players in the current economic climate . |