Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's quiet and consistently efficient carrying out of her royal duties is not perhaps as easy to relate to as the more relaxed and smiling image of the ‘ Queen Mum ’ . |
| 2 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 3 | 5.4.1 To repair the Premises and keep them in repair excepting damage caused by structural or inherent defects or by an Insured Risk other than where the insurance money is irrecoverable in consequence of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority ( but only while under the Tenant 's control and in the course of employment ) Provided that where the insurance money is not wholly irrecoverable such sums as are recoverable shall be made available as soon as possible to apply to the repair of the Premises |
| 4 | Thursday 22nd , up at 5.30 , we wanted to make it as early as possible to get to Churchill Dam where we would encounter our first rapids , Chase Rapids . |
| 5 | You do n't want to spend the first morning of your honeymoon trying to re-do it yourself , so it is probably as well to stick to something simple . |
| 6 | The use of labour exchanges to encourage vocational guidance and industrial training would , he argued , have three consequences : it would reduce risks of individual ‘ maladjustment ’ , which often meant waste of abilities and even unemployment ; it would adjust the flow of labour between trades ; and it would discourage ‘ blind-alley ’ occupations , which he saw as not only demoralizing , but also as likely to lead to ‘ a fresh point of stress in industry — the transition to a new occupation at manhood ’ . |
| 7 | As you do so , try as far as possible to keep to the basic sense of the passage . |
| 8 | For each person is unique and it is useless as well as mistaken to try to be someone else . |