Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Significantly , however , the Circular ignored the recommendation that opportunities for further in-service training should be at least as generous for teachers in further education as those in the schools .
2 In order to provide an adequate period of relief it should be at least as long as the first sentence of the theme .
3 Kessler and McLeod also found plausible evidence in three studies that the buffering effects of emotional support might be at least as important in circumstances of chronic strain as for people facing the acute stress of major events .
4 It follows that increasing the efficiency of labour , and improving the organizational structure of UK firms , may be at least as important in generating economic growth as raising the level of investment .
5 The analysis of the environment of an organisation , including the economic environment , needs to be supplemented by analysis of the political and cultural realities of the organisation , which may be at least as influential in the formation of the company goals and will be very important to the success of information systems .
6 The exemption of gifts and bequests between spouses is certainly to be welcomed , and the amended regulations which provide reasonable scope for gifts to charity are a belated honouring of the promise in the White Paper that charities would be at least as well off as under the old estate duty .
7 I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby .
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