Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very fortunate that our faithful ‘ visiting ’ advisers were willing as always to take care of art , music , social sciences , and playing cards ; and , above all , that Scott Anderson and Laurie Bruce would undertake the entire sorting and evaluating of stamps and records respectively . |
| 2 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 3 | As a male chainworker commented to Commissioner on the Factory Acts in 1876 : ‘ I should advocate their [ women 's ] time should be so limited as neither to interfere with their own health and morals or with our wages ’ . |
| 4 | Erm as desirable as that objective is , the fact of the matter is that inward investors , given the choice of the derelict industrial site in a town centre in North Yorkshire or an out of town motorway junction site to exaggerate the difference , in another part of the country is as likely as not to choose the other place . |
| 5 | Today 's newcomers are as likely as not to arrive from the opposite direction : businessmen seeking to escape the pollution , water shortages , high taxes and labour costs of southern California . |
| 6 | By fifty a married man or woman was as likely as not to have suffered widowhood , and would have already lost half his or her contemporaries : in contrast to a mere twentieth today . |
| 7 | Today an adolescent is probably as likely as not to belong to a family which is an uneasy mixture of the nuclear set-up and the institution known as serial marriage ( marriage , divorce , remarriage ) . |
| 8 | To an outsider visiting Imperial College , some of the departments seem so large as almost to prevent a sense of unity . |
| 9 | A common-sense assumption , so obvious as not to need labelling as such . |
| 10 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 11 | They often suffered from vaginismus , but they invariably praised their husbands for being ‘ exceptionally kind ’ , passive , totally understanding and ‘ so good as not to bother me ’ . |
| 12 | Er but if they 're a sensing thinking person they will find it almost totally incomprehensible , that you 've been so lax as not to have actually worked out in detail erm you know what their job is ? |
| 13 | His sisters were still at home , unwilling as ever to comprehend him , only making him feel oafish , prematurely old , unclean . |
| 14 | Three more informants identified the clash of registers in " the sort of description you expect of old Salzburg and the simile " " like a half-eaten lunch " " " , which , again , they were unable as yet to resolve . |
| 15 | On every hand we had to pick our way past fulmar chicks unable as yet to fly . |
| 16 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 17 | Church music , he said , was ‘ both apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and despair , forcible to draw forth tears of devotion … able to move and to moderate all affections ’ . |
| 18 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 19 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 20 | Publicly Mr Bush remains as determined as ever to force Iraq out of Kuwait , with no concessions . |
| 21 | As Oxfam enters its 50th year , it 's as determined as ever to improve their quality of life . |
| 22 | As Oxfam enters its 50th year , it 's as determined as ever to improve their quality of life . |
| 23 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 24 | It is , of course , difficult as yet to say whether or not these fears are unduly alarmist or exaggerated or even groundless . |
| 25 | It is difficult as yet to relate these views to changes in the map of factory employment in Britain ( critical as they are in political economy ) . |
| 26 | He prayed to build on his aversion and include Ariel herself in his disgust ; it was not as difficult as before to force himself to keep his distance , because he was angry at the child 's existence , the visible emblem and consequence of their unlawful coupling , and he wanted to punish Ariel for not using her clever arts to prevent the baby coming . |
| 27 | These fragments were Klenow end-labelled and isolated as before to produce two groups of three probes with 140k binding sites in circularly permuted positions with respect to their ends . |
| 28 | Adaptation to a changing environment may be necessary as before to achieve traditional goals . |
| 29 | Lavishly produced but too new as yet to judge its consistency and long-term value . |
| 30 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |