Example sentences of "may be as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OSF wo n't put a date on when the re-worked Tivoli-based object management system will be delivered until its announcement later this month , though observers speculate it may be as late as the middle of next year . |
| 2 | The Foundation wo n't put a date on when the re-worked Tivoli-based object management system will be delivered until its announcement later this month , though observers speculate it may be as late as the middle of next year . |
| 3 | And we must n't forget that Andropulos may be as innocent as the driven snow and that there is a perfectly rational explanation for all that has happened . |
| 4 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 5 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 6 | Instead it runs in a straight line directly and accurately back to its nest-hole which may be as much as a hundred and fifty yards away . |
| 7 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 8 | The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule . |
| 9 | This machine may be as simple as a cardboard box with a slot into which a programme can be introduced , and with a knob which the student turns as he completes one line or frame . |
| 10 | In some cabinets this may be as simple as a tray beneath the cabinet , which collects the water . |
| 11 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 12 | There may be as many as a million ants in one nest . |
| 13 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 14 | He may be as tough as a dinosaur , but he 's as gentle as a lamb . |
| 15 | It may be as fleeting as a look of acknowledgement when passing the patient 's bed ; or it may be less transient , for example helping the patient through the stages of accepting and coping with chronic illness ; or when a patient has a mental illness , it may be the major emphasis for most interactions . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be as important as the income from the corn or the lambs . ’ |
| 17 | Again , an examination of the isolated neotropical cloud forests by Sugden , shows that under certain conditions , the role of chance in terms of long-distance dispersal may be as important as the environmental factors in promoting diversity . |
| 18 | You may be as miserable as the people who write to me about losing their jobs . |
| 19 | At the manifest level of observable facts , the differences may be as significant as the similarities . |
| 20 | The capacity to make explicit what may be implicit in the kind of metaphor I have termed underlexicalisation permits the recognition of differences which may be as significant as the similarities . |