Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
| 32 | And indeed when we ponder the relationship between DNA and proteins , we see that co-operation has been at least as significant a force in evolution as has competition , and at the most fundamental level . |
| 33 | The example of Virginia Woolf 's interior monologue has been at least as useful , in this way , as Joyce 's or Dorothy Richardson 's stream of consciousness , most immediately to Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen in the 1930s , as well as to later writers , women perhaps especially , such as Anita Brookner . |
| 34 | It would have been at least as hard for the English to move north and attack the St. Lawrence Valley . |
| 35 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 36 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 37 | Worldwide , indeed , surplus nutrient is at least as dangerously polluting as pure toxin . |
| 38 | Storage of the country 's literary heritage is at least as important , and neglect of this heritage by dispersal will be just as damaging . |
| 39 | 1988 ; Northam , 1988 ) , it is at least as plausible to see these as a reactive response to rising crime and disorder , as the spontaneous cause of them . |
| 40 | This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) . |
| 41 | He reports 96% correct recognition for 12,600 words , and the approach is at least as successful , if not more so , as any reported so far . |
| 42 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 43 | Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems . |
| 44 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 45 | Teachers ' experience , which is at least as valuable a source of insight , is also readily accessible , but only if those responsible for policy are prepared to acknowledge its validity and are willing to make efforts to bring teachers into the debate . |
| 46 | I am sure that he is right in saying that the reduced pupil-teacher ratio provides children with an advantage , and also in pointing out that the quality of teaching and the ability of teachers is at least as important . |
| 47 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 48 | She followed him everywhere , allowing him to bully and browbeat her for all he was worth just as long as he did n't banish her . |
| 49 | And Woodie could see now that Maurice was in there as well . |
| 50 | They quickly discovered that daylight bombing without fighter escorts was not on , and were also surprised to find that the RAF Lancaster was at least as formidable a fighting weapon as any of their own aircraft . |
| 51 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |