Example sentences of "to be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to be as bored with Lydia 's shoulder as she was herself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The close relationship was partly a consequence of her rapport with President Reagan , and is unlikely to be as close with President Bush . |
| 4 | Here he tracked animals , and we followed , wading waist-deep through swamp water , crawling on our stomachs to be as close as possible . |
| 5 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 6 | The time of year was chosen to be as close as possible to that of the 1979 census to ensure that seasonal mortality effects would not confound results . |
| 7 | A programming language that was developed to be as close as possible to our own , in order to make the programmers ' work easier . |
| 8 | An accident in France would no have to be as serious as Chernobyl to imperil life and health over a wide area in France and its heavily populated neighbours . |
| 9 | The Kent County cricketing team came again , beating Henley 20 — 2 although the Standard bravely reported it ‘ not to be as one-sided as it might appear ’ . |
| 10 | It is vital to face up to some of the problems inherent in the situation and to be as honest as possible about all the relationships involved . |
| 11 | Human beings are expected to be as mechanical as the musak . |
| 12 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |
| 13 | If all goes smoothly , she now has the chance to become the first ‘ young British designer ’ to be internationally recognised ( oddly , in the fashion business , designers are believed to be as young as their clothes look , which , in Hamnett 's case , is about 19 ) . |
| 14 | Some of the girls pictured were thought to be as young as 6 . |
| 15 | He said encouragingly , ‘ It 's nice to be as young as you . |
| 16 | A schoolgirl thought to be as young as twelve has knocked down a pedestrian while driving a stolen car . |
| 17 | This Astra was stolen by 5 teenagers , some of whom are thought to be as young as 13 . |
| 18 | They were obviously delighted to be able to use Phoebe to prove their conviction that child stars burn out if they are not raised to be as dull as anyone else 's children . |
| 19 | Afternoon , Henry remembered , used to be as prolonged and arid as Arizona , and they were followed by things called evenings , which were entirely different and separate from nights . |
| 20 | We were very impressed with the noise suppression on this planer , as most planers tend to be as noisy as routers . |
| 21 | And then I want my shaft to be as long as a furlong and time to stand still and my tongue to be dipped in honey . |
| 22 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 23 | Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa . |
| 24 | The jaws appear to be as long as broad or slightly longer . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd never have expected him to be as supportive as he was , ’ says Sean , ‘ but it brought us closer together . |
| 26 | ‘ The Shergolds must both be under a great deal of strain and it 's up to us all to be as supportive as we can . |
| 27 | She explained to Deborah James , chosen from 300 applicants , how she wanted ‘ the design system to be as perfect as it could be so that the accountants could not spoil it ’ — ‘ accountants ’ having now become for Laura a generic term for anyone not on the design team . |
| 28 | I know it must seem an unnecessary fuss to you , Dana , but it 's a big opportunity for me and I want everything to be as perfect as possible , ’ she said urgently . |
| 29 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 30 | Support was welcomed , but except in the case of Israel and the United States , the relationships which evolved tended to be as frustrating as rewarding for all the contestants . |