Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he also wanted the battle to be as bloodless as possible . |
| 7 | Wanting this girl to be as happy as he was , Harry put his hand beneath her chin and raised her face to his . |
| 8 | It might mean selling one more inch of classified advertising space or encouraging one of your team to be as entrepreneurial as you . |
| 9 | I had expected an American senator to be as pompous and flatulent as a British MP , but George Crowninshield had proved affable and friendly . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I fully accept the points that the hon. Gentleman made about the need to be as quick as possible . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Try to get the other person to be as specific as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I want this work this week to be as good if not better than the work you did for me last week . |
| 17 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 18 | You can configure the game to be as easy or as difficult as you wish . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Is it in the interests of a corporate entity to be as profitable as possible , for example , or very large , or socially responsible ? |
| 21 | After being in The Birthday Party , where everybody wanted their part to be as loud as is humanly possible , it 's quite refreshing to find someone who does n't even care if he 's on the record or not ! ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Turning to Bridget , she sensed the other woman 's hesitation to be as great as her own . |
| 24 | Repp ( 1977 ) has argued similarly but Richardson ( 1976 ) considers choice of the " f " index to be as arbitrary as any other . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Gazza has the skill and the opportunity to be as big as Maradona , but he 's not there yet . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the lawyers ' advice to anyone leaving property to a charity in their will to be as clear and specific as possible . |
| 27 | Honestly , he wanted life to be as hard as possible . |
| 28 | By moving the feet around the board try and get your wake to be as quiet as possible and watch how it differs as you move your weight around . |
| 29 | They wanted any interim government to be as Burmese in composition as they could secure from HMG . |
| 30 | When even measurements of space and time have proved to be relative , and the sub-atomic world to be as insubstantial as the realm of Platonic ideas , is it perhaps time to recognize that each of us lives in his own reality ? |