Example sentences of "is [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , one scapegoat is enough as long as he does hit bit . ’ |
| 2 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 3 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 4 | It is perhaps as well that the British Library does not concern itself with such phenomena , but the absence of the raw material means , again , that it can not be studied properly at what is the centre of literary culture par excellence . |
| 5 | ( It is perhaps as well to make clear that these systems are not necessarily amenable to introspection . ) |
| 6 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 7 | When assessing family connections , the anatomy of a larva is obviously as valid a piece of evidence as that of the adult . |
| 8 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 9 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 10 | It follows that attempting to reduce error rates by one person checking another 's performance or automatically comparing the output of the individuals simultaneously performing the same task is not as effective as it would be if errors in the sources were independent ( Chapanis et al . , |
| 11 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 12 | The historian , just as much as contemporaries , may write with a purpose in mind , with a particular point to make , and is just as subject to the influences , ideas and circumstances of the age in which he lives . |
| 13 | Yet organized religion is already as remote from Alice 's or Henry 's life as paganism or human sacrifice . |
| 14 | The Dutch may hate the congestion , the fumes and the wasted time brought by cars , but ownership is nevertheless as essential to their perception of what constitutes the quality of life as a bathroom and central heating . |
| 15 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind the above information , it is always as well , when completing any design , to just do a quick bit of arithmetic before saving . |
| 17 | Where such clauses are included at the wish of the parties it is always as well to go on to spell out the consequences of the failure to agree . |
| 18 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 19 | Hallworth , who picked up a dead leg in a pre-season friendly , said yesterday : ‘ If it is still as sore nearer Saturday I wo n't be playing at Chelsea . ’ |
| 20 | And because death is still as difficult to imagine as birth ; both are hidden away . |
| 21 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 22 | ‘ It does not mean that chartered accountancy is not attracting as many people as before — demand is still as high , but there just are n't the training places available . ’ |
| 23 | Well over a year since ‘ Yerself Is Steam ’ was first released , the appeal of Mercury Rev — a reason why , dammit — is still as hard to pinpoint . |
| 24 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 25 | It is probably as well to pause here a moment , in order to take a few social bearings against which to judge these accusations . |
| 26 | You do n't want to spend the first morning of your honeymoon trying to re-do it yourself , so it is probably as well to stick to something simple . |
| 27 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 28 | The book is ecologically as well as artistically sound . |
| 29 | To this end , it is necessary that there should be intercommunication not only about particular design decisions but also about underlying philosophies so that the ultimate system is conceptually as well as operationally coherent . |
| 30 | Sometimes dismissed as a fringe activity ( ‘ an educational frill ’ ) , listening to music is clearly as important to as many children as it is to many adults . |