Example sentences of "[noun] to be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 2 | It is in the purchaser 's interests for dismissals to be as early as possible but the vendor runs the clear risk that the sale may not complete . |
| 3 | It is perhaps a physical impossibility to be as aware of a bitter as of a sweet taste , but a toothache relentlessly pulls wincing sensibility to itself . |
| 4 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 5 | The integrationist view , in parallel with views on the care of other disabled groups , holds that segregation brings the dangers of stigma and neglect , while integration respects the wishes of the dementing to be as normal as possible , brings the stimulus of " normal " company with consequent raising of standards , and enhances the status of sufferers . |
| 6 | How important could you from this work of making known this father 's name and kingdom , he said to his disciples my food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work why did Jesus consider God 's work to be as important as school ? |
| 7 | And we would like the architecture to be as simple as possible , the idea being that such a self-effacing architecture would help lay bare the problems of speech processing . |
| 8 | It was hoped that this visible guarantee of anonymity would encourage visitors to be as frank as they wished in their replies . |
| 9 | But he also wanted the battle to be as bloodless as possible . |
| 10 | Wanting this girl to be as happy as he was , Harry put his hand beneath her chin and raised her face to his . |
| 11 | But with an 8 litre engine , expect the petrol bills to be as outrageous as the car . |
| 12 | It might mean selling one more inch of classified advertising space or encouraging one of your team to be as entrepreneurial as you . |
| 13 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 14 | To encourage post-communist parliaments to be as representative as possible , Polish electoral law exacerbated political fragmentation by trying not to discriminate against small parties . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , I fully accept the points that the hon. Gentleman made about the need to be as quick as possible . |
| 16 | During this process it was suggested that a dummy engine be installed to save time and weight , but this idea was rejected on the grounds that the idea was for the Norseman to be as live an aircraft as it could be , and for it to taxi from the hangar in which is was being restored , across Howey Bay , to its position on the shoreline , adjacent to where it would be mounted on the pole . |
| 17 | Here he tracked animals , and we followed , wading waist-deep through swamp water , crawling on our stomachs to be as close as possible . |
| 18 | It will be interesting to see whether , in the future , the generation that is now being raised on comparatively low salt diets will consider the York ham to be as special as those who now remember it so fondly . |
| 19 | In his statement , broadcast live to the colony , the Foreign Secretary struggled to balance his ‘ desire to be as effective as possible in restoring confidence ’ with what he politely called ‘ our ability to accept the individuals concerned for settlement in this country — should that ever be necessary ’ . |
| 20 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |
| 21 | Although I did n't expect the floods to be as high as they were my friend , Matthew , and I had planned to go out in this American style canoe . |
| 22 | Try to get the other person to be as specific as possible . |
| 23 | ‘ For this year 's event to be as successful it is vital that local people support the bilingual play scheme by helping where they can , ’ community enterprise officer Angela Evans said last night . |
| 24 | Some workers have found this state of affairs to be as disturbing to development as divorce ; and in research some years ago into family aspects of drug dependence . |
| 25 | I want this work this week to be as good if not better than the work you did for me last week . |
| 26 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 27 | The aim is to assist elderly and housebound people to be as independent as possible within their own homes . |
| 28 | You can configure the game to be as easy or as difficult as you wish . |
| 29 | ‘ We consider our wares to be as good in every aspect as those provided at the other hotel , ’ he said . |
| 30 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |