Example sentences of "be [prep] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what a T four bacteria is for and that 's what I am for , and I would suggest y ultimately what you are for as well , and this is why in the end erm nature will cast us aside . |
| 2 | The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean . |
| 3 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 4 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 5 | Those that still persist in the belief that the use of computers in the study of history equates solely to quantification are about as out of date as the dinosaur-like machines available to the computer-using pioneers of the 1970s . |
| 6 | ‘ I also see that we 're about as alike as chalk and cheese , because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're about as bloody complacent as that statue over there . ’ |
| 8 | Professor Lear 's assertion that ‘ it is through love that humans , and the rest of living nature , acquire form ’ seems to me a throwback to a much earlier mode of thinking which , if widely readopted , would be about as intellectually productive as a Romanian state-run steel mill is economically productive . |
| 9 | A NAME like Pauline Gascoyne inevitably conjures an image of a bimbo Gazza in a GTi , to whom a diesel car would be about as socially acceptable as dandruff . |
| 10 | I work with her , and I 'm about as close to her as anyone around here . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm about as hard as a tub of lard , tho some people are fooled by my fascist green bomber jacket … |
| 12 | All the electronic equipment used should be of as high a standard as possible since the poorer the recording , the less useful it is as a classroom aid to teaching . |
| 13 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
| 14 | In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be . |
| 15 | Exhibitors reported that although the visitors numbers were slightly down on those for ‘ 88 — due to current trading conditions — their quality and purchasing power were of as high a level as ever . |
| 16 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 17 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 18 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 19 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 20 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
| 21 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 22 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 23 | Your average quantum mechanic is about as philosophically minded as your average garage mechanic . |
| 24 | Where crops are grown , therefore , it must be assumed that the aim is for as high a yield as possible . |
| 25 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 26 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 27 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 28 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 29 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 30 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |