Example sentences of "[noun sg] as it be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 2 | And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today . |
| 3 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 4 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 5 | It 's just as dangerous to strain the engine as it is to neglect it . |
| 6 | The Seaton Valley District Town Map of 1959 contained proposals which closely resemble the New Town as it was to develop . |
| 7 | In the past , hatcheries have had to rely on live feed , which is as unreliable and expensive to harvest from nature as it is to grow artificially . |
| 8 | For the Elizabethan magus John Dee ( 1527–1608 ) , it was as imperative to study the specific characteristics of everything in nature as it was to understand the controlling influence of the stars . |
| 9 | It will stand you in good stead throughout your life because effective note-taking is as important in business as it is to study . |
| 10 | Purely in competitive terms it is probably just as difficult to win the Paduca Classic or any other US Tour event as it is to win the Masters . |
| 11 | In many respects , between them these bodies , especially the Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association ( ASEA ) , pioneered the basic elements of the service as it was to develop , namely , vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care . |
| 12 | It is not nearly as important to identify our wrong ways of dealing with conflict as it is to learn how to resolve them . |
| 13 | ‘ For love is something so positive , so strong , so real , ’ he wrote exultantly to Theo , ‘ that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life . ’ |
| 14 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 15 | It is just as easy — and as pointless — to criticize the American press for misunderstanding the Piggott style as it is to criticize Piggott for flirting so dangerously with defeat . |
| 16 | Copies were not denigrated ; in fact , it was nearly as important to own an image that had a certain spiritual value and worth as it was to have something new . |
| 17 | In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse . |
| 18 | In perpetuating a financial structure which offers tremendous advantages to large firms , it is as important to consider the role of the state in maintaining the idiosyncrasies of the financial system as it is to debate the extent of state control over commercial banks . |
| 19 | Generic playfulness in television is as likely to fall within the characteristically modernist desire for a modernization of expression as it is to constitute a postmodern avant garde , and the two should not be confused . |
| 20 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 21 | In developing a thorough electronic information resource in the current climate of Town Hall life it is just as important to improve the facilities for a central electronic archive as it is to ensure that the paper records are properly looked after . |
| 22 | We had Trimalchio 's feast to go on , described by Nero 's mate Petronius , so we had an idea of what they ate , and let me say that it was as much of a surprise to find they had sausages and black pudding as it was to find out they had concrete . |