Example sentences of "[be] to [be] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 2 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 3 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 4 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 5 | But obviously it must be necessary to waive the statutory sectors , versus the non statutory , so it is n't er possible this year , perhaps to put in as we might do if were to be as imprudent as the opposition parties . |
| 6 | He said it 's to be as realistic as we dare to make it . |
| 7 | It is to be as visible as a city built upon a hill . |
| 8 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
| 9 | A new identity is to be as important as new social relations , part of the forging of cultural capital through which the city is to be sold . |
| 10 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 11 | The other is to be as organised as possible . |
| 12 | The secret is to be as quick as possible and to keep the animal warm afterwards . |
| 13 | The American approach is to be as formal and rigorous as possible with insistence on systematic sampling , correlating and so on . |
| 14 | reduction if the tax is to be as fair as it needs to be . |
| 15 | The aim of this structural grammar approach was to be as concrete and as objective as possible . |
| 16 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 17 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |
| 18 | The whole purpose of moving along here was to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 19 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |