Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can say is that the landscape and the resources are already there as background noise and it will be people who decide on the importance of the new material and how , or even if , it is used . |
| 2 | Despite criticisms that they 're only there as star imports for the match , the ‘ foreigners ’ insist they are at Oxford for genuine academic reasons ; the rugby is a bonus . |
| 3 | Er and these , these little exercises er are meant to give you erm they 're memory aids really , they 're not meant to be homework , they 're simply so as er you know like if you , you want to remember er a difficult name you can sometimes do a funny thing with it you know to , to remember it you know . |
| 4 | In textbooks and audio material for language teaching the characters are usually there as pegs the language can be hung on . |
| 5 | It 's not been as far as the parish is concerned |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Plomer shows a fine ear for the dramatic exchanges of his story : his half-rhymes are as just as his formal pieces — songs , homilies and ballads . |
| 8 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 9 | Intermediate measures of support through loans and grants will be necessary in order to achieve viability , but perpetual subsidies are as far as possible to be avoided . |
| 10 | It will be up to the engineers to spread what resources there are as far as possible . |
| 11 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 12 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 13 | Even bottom right may be all right as it is . |
| 14 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm all right as long as I know where things are going , but it 's not on a par with planning a legal argument . ’ |
| 16 | Her mother , defeated , would be away home as soon as she could . |
| 17 | In this form the interview would be as near as possible to a personal discussion between two people with a common interest . |
| 18 | Just as the most difficult task of the manager is ruthless intellectual honesty about his own skills , weaknesses and motives , so it is notoriously difficult to be as near as possible totally objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your company , particularly because in many cases a perceived weakness can actually be utilized as a source of strength . |
| 19 | Once any treatment has been completed , partial water changes should be carried out every three days on three consecutive occasions , before returning to fortnightly changes of about 20% , with water that must be as near as possible to that already in the aquarium , ( but hopefully that goes without saying these days ) . |
| 20 | The hot water-cylinder should certainly be as near as possible to the boiler — preferably vertically above it — and to the taps it serves . |
| 21 | It would be as soon as possible , but they could n't say exactly how long . |
| 22 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 23 | When the Dwarf King 's messenger reached Dieter the Emperor reacted immediately , not by sending help ( for the army was so starved of funds there was no help to send ) but by removing his entire court westwards to Altdorf in order to be as far as possible from the threat of Grom 's horde . |
| 24 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 25 | You say that , but are n't is n't it th the case that the loyalists , the Protestants in Northern Ireland are terrified of any kind of deal that might involve Gerry Adams because that would be as far as they are concerned the ultimate sell out , and hence there is the danger of growing sectarian violence because of fear ? |
| 26 | It can be hard physically as well as emotionally to be caring for someone who is ill and dependent , especially when we are growing older ourselves . |
| 27 | By the end of the chapter the reader is smothered with linguistic information , most of which seems to be there merely as evidence for the poem 's tone , be it " proverbial " or one of " intimacy " . |
| 28 | I 'm very near as fond of him as Elizabeth herself . |
| 29 | In fact , John Mumford 's view would be that just as the church needed a new model for healing ( and it was in some degree provided when John Wimber and his team came to train church leaders from many different denominations and streams in England ) , so a new model is needed for evangelistic ministry . |
| 30 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |