Example sentences of "is as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 2 | Burrows believes that smacking is as necessary as kissing and cuddling , and finds it ironic that the same kind of arguments about parents not knowing when to stop are used to undermine our instincts in both cases . |
| 3 | In the British and the American cases it is as necessary to contextualise the production of knowledges about the inner city as it is to unpack the glossary of terms of urban regeneration used in contemporary political discourse . |
| 4 | For that a settled ethical character is as necessary as is intelligence itself . |
| 5 | In 1641 an attorney of the Council in the Marches , Richard Lloyd , defending that court against its enemies , claimed that ‘ it is as necessary for princes to have places of preferment to prefer servants of merit as money in their Exchequer ’ . |
| 6 | For a firm to succeed it is as necessary to efficiently manage its knowledge resources as it is its labour and capital . |
| 7 | A-to-Z is a top-priced 14–1 for the 1,000 Guineas , while Perfect Circle is on offer at the same quote and Soiree is as low as 7–1 . |
| 8 | The venue , Silksworth , near Sunderland , is as usual for this championship neither central nor convenient for the majority . |
| 9 | The venue , Silksworth , near Sunderland , is as usual for this championship neither central nor convenient for the majority . |
| 10 | For painting other than on vases the evidence is as usual indirect ; but it seems certain that the emergence of a great new revolutionary style of wall-painting with broken ground-lines belongs after the retreat of the Persians , in the seventies . |
| 11 | And his final message to AEA is as usual optimistic . |
| 12 | As we discuss in Chapter 6 , a better way to envisage such imperatives is as latent : waiting , as it were , to be activated by the social and political relations and contexts in which people are living . |
| 13 | Such an attitude is as dogmatic , doctrinal and restrictive in its own way as was the fearful silence or sniggering scorn of earlier decades . |
| 14 | To suggest we should ignore such a sign is as irrational as saying that the blue-black line which appears on the gums due to chronic lead poisoning is of no significance because it does n't cause any pain or discomfort . |
| 15 | Such a vision is as microscopic as Paul Scott 's is panoramic ; and a future historian , reading the Raj Quartet or J. G. Farrell 's Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 ) , which tells of the Indian Mutiny , might easily make the mistake of supposing that the British are nostalgic for lost empire . |
| 16 | To the criticism that such exposure is as likely to be destructive as constructive , he counters that it is the person 's behaviour in a team with a specific task ahead that is under discussion , not the person himself . |
| 17 | Expertise in such matters is as likely to be found in schools as in the LEA ; but in any event good practice is defined and achieved dialectically and empirically , not by decree . |
| 18 | To assess the distribution , the project leader is first asked to give a date such that the true date is as likely to be after it as before it . |
| 19 | To assess the distribution , the project leader is first asked to give a date such that the true date is as likely to be after it as before it . |