Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miniature roses , growing no more than 40cm are widely available as house-plants . |
| 2 | Geographers are well represented in industry , commerce , government and the professions , and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees . |
| 3 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 4 | A great many of them , certainly those who are the prime candidates to read our magazine , are strikingly different as fathers than their fathers ; they 're also different lovers , husbands , bosses and sons . |
| 5 | Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music . |
| 6 | Fishing effort in the North Sea which had been slowly increasing as engines and gear were developed , came almost to a standstill during the war and , in consequence , the sea-bird populations flourished as fish stocks increased . |
| 7 | Inveterate controllers are rarely adequate as physical lovers , unable to let go or risk too much excitement . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , leading writers in the profession seem to have been rather vague as to the precise value-adding role that is appropriate for librarians and information scientists : |
| 9 | Generalizing about ‘ quangos ’ can be hazardous — even their origins are remarkably diverse as Barker ( 1982 , pp. 7–8 ) observes : |
| 10 | It will have to judge which of the received suggestions are most suitable as well as possibly adding items which have not been suggested . |
| 11 | Teachers have always been somewhat confused as to who is their client . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , developing and maintaining standards of high quality practice in mental health services , especially those providing ‘ round the clock ’ care in hospitals and residential homes , is an uphill struggle and people who depend on others to provide the basic necessities of life for most of their lives are necessarily vulnerable as they are not in a position to complain effectively , ‘ vote with their feet ’ or refuse to be consumers of a bad service . |
| 13 | It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes . |
| 14 | Cleanliness and hygiene are obviously important as is the siting of new animal houses or manure stores in order to obtain maximum dispersion of the odour . |
| 15 | Rights of audience before tribunals are much wider as noted in chapters 12 and 13 . |
| 16 | Trivial names are much better as memory aids as well . |
| 17 | They are especially good as early introductions into newly-matured systems , where their hardiness enables them to survive any initial problems . |
| 18 | There will be found a wealth of information in all kinds of forms — from details of sites which have been excavated and studied , to actual examples of materials used , given that they have been sufficiently durable as to survive . |
| 19 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 20 | Such obligations , usually based upon kinship relations , are highly specific as regards both the actions demanded and the identity of the individual subject to them . |
| 21 | Activator centres : those where radioactive transitions ( luminescence ) are highly probable as the energized centre returns to its ground state . |
| 22 | So-called ‘ button ’ badges , paper print covered with celluloid , are highly collectable as well as being a fascinating guide to social history , says Leicestershire teacher Frank Setchfield , who has a 40,000-strong collection . |
| 23 | In sum , employers are highly significant as actors in their own right and their activities are a critically important variable affecting the direction and development of industrial relations . |
| 24 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 25 | Characins migrate only upstream , but their young are displaced downstream once more ; they are less good as dispersers than catfish , however , as the latter have weaker jaws . |
| 26 | Preadolescent boys and girls of all ages are less identifiable as black , although their ethnicity may be " guessable " for members of their own community . |
| 27 | Inductors exhibit inherent resistance and capacitance and are less convenient as standards than capacitors , particularly when continuous variation is required , as discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2 . |
| 28 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 29 | The antecedents of retrospective completion are less clear as this variable was not significantly associated with any other . |
| 30 | Social pressures upon them to be " good parents " are strong : to complain about the situation would indicate that they are less adequate as mothers or fathers than they should be . |