Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another .
2 In cases of unplanned interruptions , our aim is to notify you as soon as practicable of when your supply will be restored .
3 The best solution to bristleworms is to remove them as soon as possible when setting up a tank , perhaps by quarantining living rock and corals before introduction into the display tank .
4 And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings .
5 Looking at the fossil animal itself , the first necessity is to reconstruct it as accurately as possible from its fragmentary remains .
6 My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture .
7 Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions .
8 The easiest and most commonly used method was to ignore them as far as possible .
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