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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is questionable that texts can always be read as favourably as she seeks to do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It should however be replaced as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Some would argue that these enterprises have no place in a capitalist system , and should therefore be privatised as soon as possible . |