Example sentences of "[verb] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Masailand , cut off from all civilized amenities , and , if he conscientiously followed the herds instead of trying to rule the country from his office , beyond the reach even of the telegraph , a DO could enjoy as much autonomy as he liked . |
| 2 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 3 | Contract was once the greediest of legal categories intent on devouring as many areas of the law as possible ( e.g. quasi-contract ) and indeed was even invoked to explain the nature of the state itself . |
| 4 | At night , when air-conditioners are turned off in Phoenix , the water level drops as much as ten feet . |
| 5 | Yet he had no intention of revealing as much . |
| 6 | In the same way , if employees and unions have already squeezed as much out of the employer as they possibly can , the employer can not pay higher labour costs without going bankrupt . |
| 7 | Then there was what we might call the backgrounder , the detective story in which interest lies as much in the setting as in the puzzle . |
| 8 | It is my assertion that the answer lies as much with her desire to be recognised as a ‘ Great Artist ’ on the same terms as any male artist , as it does with her probable lesbianism . |
| 9 | The measure of that lies as much in the minor elements as in the headline-grabbing reforms of taxation and expenditure policy . |
| 10 | Again , my aim is to have clarified as much as possible by the end of November , so we can bring it all together at the Senior Management Strategy Conference . |
| 11 | ( iv ) After the eggs have settled to the bottom of the dish , replace as much of the hyaluronidase solution as possible with warm M2 + BSA , collect the eggs by mouth pipette and wash them free of cumulus cells by repeated passage through further washes of M2 + BSA . |
| 12 | Sometimes she wants as much as 15 minutes before I 'm allowed to have intercourse . |
| 13 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 14 | But Diana has refused a personal invitation from the Queen to the church service and Christmas lunch — a clear signal that she wants as little as possible to do with the rest of the royals . |
| 15 | This suggestion of a compulsive activity with which he wants as little to do as possible is confirmed by his description of poetry as a " secretion " ( he quotes Housman favourably on this ) , an " evacuation " and even a " defecation " . |
| 16 | He 's stuck it in his shop window because he says it 's so ridiculous he wants as many people as possible to see it . |
| 17 | He 's stuck it in his shop window because he says it 's so ridiculous he wants as many people as possible to see it . |
| 18 | I mean I 'll wait , we wait there and , but I think she just wants as many people as she possibly can , do you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 20 | However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate . |
| 21 | I promise further to secure as many members as possible for the League of Decency . |
| 22 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 23 | They believed implicitly in the effectiveness of their method of preparing and getting the bone , and they were certain that the bone 's power stemmed as much from the special treatment it had during the ceremony as from the actual jailing or drawing substances with which they afterwards impregnated it . |
| 24 | Mr Major seemed to shake as many hands from Michigan , Brussels and Canada than the Home Counties . |
| 25 | ‘ Cry as much as you like , Miss Cathy , ’ he said . |
| 26 | What you must do is preserve as much of that space as you can , especially downwind of you . |
| 27 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 28 | The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field . |
| 29 | Secondly , this study aimed to discover as much as possible of the information which is potentially available to drivers , not just the occasional item of particular interest . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to challenge and excite as much as I can but I 'm not going to create a work for the Scottish Ballet that is going to drive their audience away . ’ |