Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exposure and remedy of facets of systems performance which are not entirely as predicted is in everyone 's interest . |
| 2 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 3 | In textbooks and audio material for language teaching the characters are usually there as pegs the language can be hung on . |
| 4 | We are now just as determined to move upwards as a university at the forefront of high quality research , contributing to knowledge and understanding relevant to the needs of society . |
| 5 | But ( in Helen Chadwick 's words ) " the draperies are n't there as titillating lingerie , but to intensify the decorativeness , because the greater the decoration , the greater the sense of transience . |
| 6 | You could find that this is just the beginning and that your plans are n't quite as cut and dried as they appear . ’ |
| 7 | Animals are not self-conscious and are there merely as means to an end . |
| 8 | However , as we shall see , the enormous ramifications of this draconian approach by the police were not always as intended . |
| 9 | A reading of some of the sacred texts of Hinduism and even non-theistic Buddhism arguably reveals a vision of reality permeated by a single transcendent being as clearly as do the texts and commentaries of the Near Eastern religions . |
| 10 | That quondam Nazi , Peregrine , is now nearly as reformed a character as you are — that 's all I 'll write . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But it is n't quite as switched on as our ad men make out . ’ |
| 12 | Though Lyra is small , it contains a number of interesting objects , and of course it is graced by the presence of Vega , the lovely blue star which is almost overhead as seen from British latitudes during summer evenings . |
| 13 | The problem is quite simply as follows . |
| 14 | Manners ' reaction to the delegation was not perhaps as anticipated . |
| 15 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |