Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some , the parade before the public is a source of extreme satisfaction to their vanity , but all the preliminaries that go before the parade are so much drudgeries that irritate , and are completed as hastily as possible . |
| 2 | International discussion is eased if they are distinguished as far as possible . |
| 3 | Linda , Christy , Cindy , Claudia , Yasmeen , Naomi ; their names are dropped as casually as cigarette butts in a pavement cafe . |
| 4 | With the support of regional legal officers and a set of guidelines and codes of practice , we ask the solicitors to abide by regional secretaries ensuring that cases are pursued as forcefully as possible with the members interests uppermost at all stages . |
| 5 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 6 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 7 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 8 | The few non-users of search , however , are seen not only as good at training people but also keeping them . |
| 9 | Within the discourse of the Report , utilitarian and vocational education are seen not only as inadequate vehicles for the effective " cultural nationalization " of the working and lower middle classes , but also as positively dangerous to the extent that they generate unfulfilled cultural and economic expectations . |
| 10 | Things are stirred up enough as they are , do n't you think ? |
| 11 | Reducing possible misunderstanding or confusion by ensuring that tasks requiring vision are presented as clearly as possible both in terms of the materials themselves and the way in which explanations and directions are given will be a great help not only to pupils with defective vision but also to their classmates . |
| 12 | Larger and smaller weights than the gram are built up exactly as they were in the system of length measurement , so that again the table of weights follows the place values of number and decimals . |
| 13 | ‘ Few principles of statutory interpretation are applied as frequently as the presumption against alterations in the common law . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the relatively few persons for whom special knowledge and training are reserved are freed so far as possible from the obligations of simple labour ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 15 | The company has a major share of the broiler feed market in the SE region thanks to the commitment of the regional poultry team who ensure their customers needs are met as economically as possible . |
| 16 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |
| 17 | As for the criteria for granting postgraduate awards , postgraduate study and research are academically demanding and candidates should be selected by competition to ensure that the resources available are used as effectively as possible . |
| 18 | Legal commentary and technical background are avoided as far as possible . |
| 19 | This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well so as to avoid straining the eye . |
| 20 | If it has been discovered during the course of earth-moving for construction or other work , however , the site may be totally unknown ; in this case , it is important that local archaeologists are alerted as soon as possible , so that some kind of record of the site can be made before it is destroyed , or it may even be excavated if found to be important . |
| 21 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 22 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 23 | Blake and King begin to complain to each other that they are now wasting their time , since matters are settled so far as they are concerned . |
| 24 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 25 | With the present London Philharmonic exceptionally alert , the skipping rhythms in compound time are sprung as infectiously as ever , nudging now rather than jabbing the listener . |
| 26 | The rooms are lit by windows on the exterior and in the courtyard walls and the rooms themselves are laid out much as in a modern flat . |
| 27 | Isolated ApT steps show very little cleavage while blocks of three or more contiguous ATs are cut as efficiently as GpT . |
| 28 | His driving apparently is still not all it might be , but his short game and putting are very good and that is where scores are salvaged as well as made . |
| 29 | If it is accepted that representative or indirect democracy is at best an inadequate substitute for personal participation , and that everything possible should be done to ensure that the views and wishes of the people are represented as accurately as possible within such a system , it must surely follow that representation should be in proportion to the weight of opinion in the society itself . |
| 30 | Results are printed out either as combined sound levels in one place or in the form of a contour map showing the decibel levels |