Example sentences of "is as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Glen , at Lehman Brothers , disagrees : ‘ In terms of realising value , it would have been nice to pick the top of the market , but in terms of business necessity , the best time to do it is as soon as possible , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The farmer with fertile land in a favourable situation and with a good business sense may be able to adjust his product ‘ mix ’ so as to hedge his income from market fluctuations , and to ensure a cash-flow which is as even as possible throughout the year . |
| 3 | I reckon I know where he is as well as you do , and I might have to say . |
| 4 | This sanguine trust in the unity and coherence of the universe is as far as possible from ‘ the American Puritan temperament ’ , as Eliot suffered it and articulated it . |
| 5 | So the writer of police procedurals is basically faced with the task of making what is in life dull into reading that is as far as possible exciting . |
| 6 | The clearest example of referential language is scientific prose , in which the evocation of feeling is as far as possible eliminated , and the writer 's and reader 's attention focused entirely on things . |
| 7 | Erm the on the only bit of information I got down there is as far as the maximum limits are concerned I do n't think it 's a government I think it 's an insurance company agreement actually of seventy |
| 8 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 9 | You 'll be given a fistful of them and the one that is set for you should be the first one that you do , but then the groups should pick something which is as far as possible relevant to what 's actually going on in your profession at the moment . |
| 10 | The door is as still as the sky ; |
| 11 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |