Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [adv] as [det] " 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 But Timothy Gedge could n't be dismissed as easily as that .
3 The information contained in wills must be examined as critically as that in any other document .
4 A wave of misery swept over Cassie as she wondered if the last of her little dreams was to be shattered as cruelly as these other two ; the dream in which Johnny hated and despised his wife ; the one in which he planned to divorce her and marry Cassie instead .
5 But we really do n't feel it should be done as openly as this within a community of young families and children .
6 Thus where the protected interest is only physical harm , the criterion of personal responsibility will be drawn as loosely as all foreseeable consequences .
7 ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce .
8 Unattended and unrepresented claimants ' appeals did not appear to be tested as carefully as those of attended and represented claimants .
9 All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " .
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