Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But neither the board nor the judiciary can be as close , or as sensitive , to public opinion as a minister responsible to Parliament and to the electorate . |
| 2 | Currently , production personnel spend nearly 4 per cent of their working time in training , but the figure can be as high as 25 per cent in the case of new nuclear power stations . |
| 3 | The break-up of a partnership can be as catastrophic as bereavement . |
| 4 | Unger wants to revise psychological theory , but retain psychology 's emphasis on objectivity , since ‘ feminist scholarship can be as objective as any other scholarship with a particular theoretical bias ’ ( 1979 : ix ) . |
| 5 | There is evidence that brief counselling by the general practitioner can be as effective as minor tranquillizers for patients with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety and depression associated with social difficulties , without the risks involved in the use of minor tranquillizers . |
| 6 | The pool constructed from a liner can be as large and irregular as the gardener fancies and yet can be adapted simply to accommodate a bog garden as well . |
| 7 | Although computed tomography can be as sensitive as MRI in the detection of nodular leptomeningeal tumour , enhanced MRI imaging is more sensitive in the detection of diffuse meningeal enhancement against the inner table of the skull . |
| 8 | From haute cuisine right through to superb vegetarian menus , dining at the Sauerhof can be as waist-expanding or waistreducing as you require . |
| 9 | Cos there are people in Britain who simply do n't believe that the public sector can be as efficient as the private sector . |
| 10 | To date , Washington has amassed career earnings of $512,272 , ( 7/4/92 ) , a figure which demonstrates to others who might be thinking of following in his footsteps that tennis can be as lucrative as either baseball or basketball . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 13 | Amid the peace and comfort of your surroundings , you can enjoy healthy and delicious food , natural therapies and treatments , and any exercise can be as rigorous or as gentle as you wish . |
| 14 | A skilled endoscopist is essential , but the equipment can be as simple as a standard endoscope and an injection needle . |
| 15 | We are often also faced , however , with the need to tolerate contradictions , not to strive for an illusory or impossible ideal , and to avoid self-punishing forms of anxiety , defence and guilt ( and feminist guilt can be as punishing as any other kind ) . |
| 16 | You come and go with your offerings of help and affection , knowing that what they really need is a constant presence , and sometimes this knowledge can be as painful for you as it is for them . |
| 17 | Now his conscience can be as comfortable as his lifestyle — it 's simple to rest easy if you have already earned £1.6 million . |
| 18 | Your event can be as big or small as you like — it 's entirely up to you . |
| 19 | In fact , the walking can be as strenuous as you want it . |
| 20 | In some cases , the failure rate can be as high as 99.9 per cent . |
| 21 | Now Mill accepts that representative democracy can be as bad as Russo supposes it is , but there are aspects of Mill 's views which make him sound very much like Russo as well . |
| 22 | It is , of course , important to ensure that reference and sample spectra are recorded under the same conditions of phase , temperature , concentration and instrument resolution so that the comparison can be as detailed and reliable as possible . |
| 23 | And it just goes to show that quality can be as big a crowd puller as goals . |
| 24 | Revenue is something you can get an instant " feel " for , something which excites and stimulates , Getting the revenue figures on a Monday morning can be as exhilarating as attending a top-class athletics meeting . |
| 25 | With some products , particularly new ones , advertising to the trade can be as important as advertising to the consumer . |
| 26 | Cooking with chocolate can be as rewarding as eating it . |
| 27 | ( left ) Dressing up or down this versatile outfit can be as simple as changing your shoes — comfy espadrilles for daytime , sophisticated heels for evenings . |
| 28 | Informal methods of control can be as important . |
| 29 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 30 | I suppose , in your time , a man can be as randy as he pleases ; it adds to his desirability ; proves he 's a real man … suitably virile . |