Example sentences of "that be as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting . |
| 2 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's as well as I can putt . |
| 4 | That 's as near as you 'll get to a guarantee of a good holiday . |
| 5 | That was as near as anyone got to beating Tom . |