Example sentences of "[adv] as it [be] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is as much to keep other things from crowding in as it is to ensure that we pay attention to all that matters . |
| 2 | How do you make it a room that is as pleasant to live in as it is to look at ? |
| 3 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 4 | In other words , if Dr Akhtar has his way , it would become unlawful to vilify a person 's religion , just as it is to humiliate him because of the colour of his skin . |
| 5 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 6 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 7 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 8 | This difference between holists and individualists , hard as it is to formulate exactly , is a vital one : for it reveals the competing values which underlie the two approaches . |
| 9 | They are , moreover , a warning against complacency , their existence in our midst reminding us that there are quarters in which ( hard as it is to accept ) we ourselves would be considered foreigners , too . |