Example sentences of "as it be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 2 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |
| 3 | Chairman Wayne Calloway tells investors : ‘ Our pink-eyed friends on the cover are the best way we know to symbolise rapid growth — something as natural to us as it is to them . ’ |
| 4 | In general , Highlander have found that it is unwise to place too much reliance on Government funding for support , subject as it is to political whim and shifts of policy of the administration . |
| 5 | The submerged fringe of each continent is the continental shelf , which may be a thousand or more kilometres in width ( as it is to the south of Madagascar ) or have a width of practically zero ( as around parts of the Philippines ) . |
| 6 | In June , regular services began from South Shore to Bispham , which became a major terminal of the Promenade cars as it is to this day . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't the same thing to us as it is to you . |
| 8 | Total quality is a developing concept , but it is applicable to the education business just as much as it is to any other business . |
| 9 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |
| 10 | Style is as crucial to the accountant 's report as it is to ( for instance ) the job application . |
| 11 | Central heating can be as serious a scourge to fine old books as it is to fine old furniture . |
| 12 | The education package for schools announced by the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in March 1980 is a particularly welcome initiative , directed as it is to those who are likely to leave school soon . |
| 13 | When it comes to desserts , it is not as difficult to say no the those of Spain and Mexico as it is to those of some other countries . |
| 14 | The pagan counterpart of the eagle 's song may be the death of Aragorn , relegated as it is to an Appendix . |
| 15 | What 's more it is as kind to the environment as it is to your skin , thanks to our ozone-friendly dispenser . |
| 16 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 17 | This image seems to be as appealing to romantic capitalists as it is to millenarian marxists , both of whom see it as a sort of primitive grace from which the modern world has fallen ( e.g. Diamond 1972 ; Wolf 1981 ; Durdin 1972 ; MacLeish 1972 ; Montagu 1976 ) . |
| 18 | Important as it is to the understanding of the world today , it was in these years only occasionally decisive for Europe . |
| 19 | It is as applicable to the running of the parish council as it is to the leadership of IBM and I hope that you find in this book something , even if only one thing , that you can apply and that will help you gain the results you seek . |
| 20 | It is to our benefit , as it is to everyone else 's , that some measure of perspective should be restored . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's as silly to laugh as it is to be scared . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 23 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 24 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 25 | St Ives , exposed as it is to the advertising cycle through the production of magazines , has done well to achieve profits stability after a sharp fall from £29.1m in 1989/90 . |
| 26 | For all its great altitude , the view from the top of the Col du Tourmalet is much less open and memorable than many , blocked as it is to the south by a row of peaks and overpowered immediately to the north by the bulk of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , which is a most assertive mountain . |
| 27 | The raised tail is a visual signal to the others ( as it is to humans ) that the individual is relaxed and friendly . |
| 28 | That was something to have , she told herself , to know precisely where you belong , and to be as essential to that place as it is to you . |
| 29 | This conclusion is as pertinent to women caring for an elderly or disabled person as it is to their sisters caring for young , able-bodied children . |
| 30 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |