Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not all professionals subscribe to the view that disabled people are unsuitable as health professionals . |
| 2 | Thick , textured fabrics are unsuitable as they do not take the stiffening well and also produce too much bulk around the roller . |
| 3 | Both the welfare socialists and the individualistic Tories are right as well as wrong in their analysis . |
| 4 | None of the favourite animals has any outstanding economic value ( unless one counts tourism ) and , apart from otters , domestic cats and hedgehogs , none is especially ‘ cute ’ as an adult , although most are endearing as youngsters . |
| 5 | And I know that the Tetleys and P G Tips tea bags are dearer as well . |
| 6 | Applications for these awards are unnecessary as each hotel is automatically considered at the time of the annual inspection . |
| 7 | Current European efforts to preserve electronic information are paltry as most of the existing data archives concentrate on the retention of datasets produced by researchers . |
| 8 | Animals that do this include fish such as the cod , which of course are highly mobile even as adults ; crustacea such as crabs and lobsters ; echinoderms such as sea urchins ; gastropod molluscs such as winkles , which are mobile as adults but are not able to travel huge distances ; and also — crucially — most of the animals which are sessile as adults — that is , remain immobile in one place . |
| 9 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 10 | ( c ) Obligations under finance leases and hire purchase contracts are due as follows : |
| 11 | Obligations under finance leases are due as follows : |
| 12 | Energy costs are low as well , Hardman claims , with the average energy costs of an Urbanbuild home running at £5 a week last winter , compared with £20 a week in the smaller concrete flats nearby . |
| 13 | But at high NO concentrations , ozone levels are low as it reacts with NO to form NO&sub2 ; . |
| 14 | Under very low nutrient conditions in general , however , species numbers are low as they are , contrariwise , under greenhouse competition experiments with high nutrient levels . |
| 15 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 16 | Man needs to have some understanding of how this , and other atrocities , are possible as one of the major ways for avoiding them in the future . |
| 17 | A central aim of the work is to determine the extent to which will founded generalisations are Possible as to the manner in which the structure of these industries evolves . |
| 18 | In summing up the day the Bishop emphasised the fact that there are weak as well as strong , failures as well as successes , amongst the people of God . |
| 19 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 20 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
| 21 | Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs ' squashy traces , Grounds of rough fallows with thistle and weed , Flats and low vallies of kingcups and daisies , Sweetest of subjects are ye for my reed : Ye commons left free in the rude rags of nature , Ye brown heaths beclothed in furze as ye be , My wild eye in rapture adores every feature , Ye are dear as this heart in my bosom to me . |
| 22 | Ideally you need just a little one-to-one tuition , preferably after you have struggled on your own for a bit to discover which bits are clear as daylight and which are clear as mud . |
| 23 | I think the first priority is that people are clear as to what the score is . |
| 24 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 25 | These parts of the file are interrelated as shown in Fig. 7.1 . |
| 26 | Similarly initial costs are high as vendors try to recover their non-recurring investments in the technology , but falls as volumes increase and manufacturing is streamlined or competition depresses prices . |
| 27 | The standards today give preference to a rich red with white lineback , tail and underline , though yellow dun , plum and red-eared white ( with or without red , dun or plum on their sides ) are acceptable as long as they have the white finching . |
| 28 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 29 | ‘ We are interdependent as we always were , ’ Maurin said . |
| 30 | The first is the normal one that both manager and employees are effort- as well as risk-averse . |