Example sentences of "had as much " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if every sentence he had ever written had not cried out to the heavens that the man had as much integrity as a rotten tree-trunk . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , back in the ‘ bar area ’ the deadly serious cinephiles for whom going to the cinema had as much magic as attending evening class droned endlessly on . |
| 3 | Between 1950 and 1979 neither Labour nor Conservative ever had as much as 55 per cent ofthe combined two-party vote . |
| 4 | But it also contained films by Hitchcock dealing with British stories that avoided the sort of grandiosity which afflicted so many of the pictures pitched at the US market , and had as much wit as The Private Life of Henry VIII . |
| 5 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 6 | But I doubt if she had as much fun . |
| 7 | A good warrior but the Bruces had as much claim to Alexander 's throne as he had , and now the throne was empty . |
| 8 | The result had as much to do with romanticism as historical accuracy , with simulated timber framing , and a Gothic chimneypiece decorated with scenes of the King 's escape . |
| 9 | Just days after she had agreed to pay tax the new monarch-of-the-people was pictured travelling on a regular scheduled train and slipping out of an Oxfam shop in a public relations exercise that had as much subtlety as a Jeremy Beadle prank . |
| 10 | If the families who received our hampers had as much pleasure as we did in planning them , then it was all worth while . |
| 11 | These squads were armed only with automatic pistols as each man carried a 601b ( 27kg ) rucksack of explosives and some had as much as 901b ( 40kg ) loads . |
| 12 | From then on , the school had as much reason as I did to feel rejected , and if they perceived my rejection as vengeful , they were right . |
| 13 | ‘ Today , the steelworker and the stenographer , the teacher and the nurse , had as much power in the mystery of our democracy as the president , the billionaire , and the governor . |
| 14 | They had as much right to be there as I , and I was in no position to judge what benefits they were deriving from their experiences , beyond a developed attraction towards pyromania . |
| 15 | This study showed that the anticipation and the worry had as much effect as the actual admission procedure . |
| 16 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 17 | Madonna is saying , ‘ Do n't you wish you had as much sex as often and as uninhibitedly as me ? ’ to the poor old lights-out , pyjamas-on proletariat . |
| 18 | Ship-building was a great consumer of steel ; by 1914 Great Britain alone had as much steam tonnage as had the whole of Europe in 1880 and was launching another 2 million tons a year . |
| 19 | Half the yeomen of Rutland were also freeholders , unlike the majority of husbandmen , though few had as much as 40s. a year . |
| 20 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 21 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 22 | He dissociated himself from Tony Benn 's provocative statement that a printer had as much right to regulate the contents of a newspaper as the editor or anyone else . |
| 23 | These were just dreams ; foolish , romantic dreams ; and Johnny had as much need of them as anyone else . |
| 24 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 25 | The decision in 1925 to rejoin the Gold Standard had as much to do with wishing to be ‘ tied up ’ to the United States of America as was the decision to enter the ERM to do with wishing increasingly to be linked with a centrally governed Europe . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely only Mr Chatterton had as much to lose as you , Colonel Fagg ? ’ |
| 27 | Our guide was a dour-faced , taciturn , little man who had as much chatter and wit as a dumb-struck oaf though he knew the bridle paths and trackways of Leicestershire like the back of his hand . |
| 28 | Compared with Pissed , Eddie had as much — if not more — skill , but lacked electric pace , Best 's killer instinct and a venomous shot . |
| 29 | And the context in which this was er argued er was er the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba , a C I A American supported invasion , er which er failed very badly but which certainly indicated the American desire to get rid of Castro and er Khrushchev was asserting in effect that he had as much right to defend an ally as the United States had er to defend erm its allies and in the same sort of way . |
| 30 | Right now it was curved in a smile that had as much warmth as the Arctic Ocean . |