Example sentences of "be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afternoon , Henry remembered , used to be as prolonged and arid as Arizona , and they were followed by things called evenings , which were entirely different and separate from nights . |
| 2 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government . |
| 4 | Yet as Andrew Palmer , deputy finance director at Legal & General Investments warned at the same conference , ‘ like all chains , Taurus is only going to be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 5 | Privately , not all of Poland 's Communist leaders believe the pro-democracy forces at the Party 's local level to be as strong as the survey indicated . |
| 6 | Practice needs to be as strong as possible , not levelled down to a lowest common denominator . |
| 7 | She did n't seem to be as strong as in her young days , and the socks stopped her catching him with her toenails . |
| 8 | It may not be as strong as the main outside door . |
| 9 | The impulse to partner parents can be as strong for children as the temptation for parents to confide in their children as if they were partners . |
| 10 | With such fundamental changes involved , a business can only be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 11 | There is nothing more annoying to older people , for their need and desire to communicate , at an adult level , is likely to be as strong as ever . |
| 12 | Commitment to suggestions and proposals may not be as strong when emotions are not engaged . |
| 13 | ‘ And they wo n't be as strong this time because they have lost two or three players through injury . ’ |
| 14 | Many still believe that finance can only be as strong as local manufacturing . |
| 15 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 16 | It says committment to business in Swindon will be as strong as ever . |
| 17 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said : ‘ The special relationship between America and Israel will be as strong as ever . ’ |
| 18 | c ) You might not be able to assemble the furniture correctly so it will not be as strong as it should be . |
| 19 | when it 's a single thickness strong the colour wo n't be as strong as that anyway . |
| 20 | LDL helps to build up the deposits that cause heart disease , so it should be as low as possible . |
| 21 | However the IG index of prices on the grey market — where shares are traded unofficially before issue — indicates that the more popular companies , such as Thames and Northumbrian , could open with at least a 30p premium , while the premium on the less popular North West and South West could be as low as 21p . |
| 22 | Headline inflation , further distorted by changes in interest rates , could be as low as 4% . |
| 23 | For all these reasons , bank-loan growth will be as low as 6% this year , suggests another broker , W.I. Carr , compared with 20% in 1990 . |
| 24 | The fastest growth will occur in the electrical sector , with overall rates of 7 per cent pa , but uncertainty over recycling will damage prospects for the automotive polyesters — annual growth is forecast to be as low as 2 per cent for cars and 1.7 per cent for commercial vehicles . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Obviously getting work is an extremely important goal for any child at school , and it is a goal for society that there should be as low a level of unemployment as is compatible with the advancement of technology and the efficiency of industry and agriculture . |
| 27 | Correlation was found to be as low as 0.385 . |
| 28 | Bob Atkinson of the VCA reckons the cost of LVTA could be as low as £15,000 but suggests that , as the precise requirements of the regulations have been kept deliberately flexible , the inspectors will have the final say . |
| 29 | The Children 's Society denounced the proposals , which could cost up to £75 million , as a ‘ knee jerk reaction ’ given figures suggesting the number of persistent young offenders could be as low as 100 . |
| 30 | The approach to the tournament should be as low key as possible with changes being made only where absolutely necessary . |