Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | While certainly it seems plausible to suggest that , if there are people from similar social or educational backgrounds in a number of key roles , the relationships between those people will facilitate the sharing of ideas and opinions , the processes involved can not necessarily be explained as simply as this . |
2 | And big brewers Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Alick Rankin reckons the north will soon be hit as hard as the south . |
3 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
4 | In reality , the asset would form part of the ‘ general pool ’ of plant and machinery and the tax benefit of the balancing allowance would not be realised as early as in the example . |
5 | It will make a little money , so you need not be troubled as far as I am concerned . ’ |
6 | No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang . |
7 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
8 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
9 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
10 | The vihuela tablatures contained villancicos and romances — with the melody in red figures– as in Luis Milan 's El Maestro ( Valencia , 1535 or 6 ) , so that it could easily be sung as well as played . |
11 | It is questionable that texts can always be read as favourably as she seeks to do . |
12 | They become entangled in such a way that it is very rare for any to wriggle free , and while there is ample time to collect them at relative leisure they should nonetheless be collected as quickly as possible . |
13 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
14 | ‘ Although the issues before the Divisional Court related only to prisoners serving discretionary life sentences , I have decided that the date of the first formal review of the cases of prisoners serving mandatory life sentences should also be fixed as soon as practicable after conviction and sentence . |
15 | Sovereignty , homage and fealty , and the ‘ domainal liberties ’ of the Plantagenets , are sometimes considered in a theoretical light but they must also be put as firmly as possible into the more pragmatic context of Anglo-French relations . |
16 | But Timothy Gedge could n't be dismissed as easily as that . |
17 | People like us ca n't be repaired as easily as people like you . ’ |
18 | It should however be replaced as soon as possible . |
19 | Some would argue that these enterprises have no place in a capitalist system , and should therefore be privatised as soon as possible . |