Example sentences of "as [adj] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 2 | Just say a man does n't earn as much money as me and he has to steal to keep his family , well , sociology says that 's OK . |
| 3 | But if the deal were a gross deal , then the promoter would look to save as much money as possible . |
| 4 | Third , the state will attempt to squeeze more tax revenue from provinces intent on keeping as much money as possible for themselves . |
| 5 | Anyway , nobody handed out as much money to beggars as she . |
| 6 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 7 | These days the only thing the notoriously fickle C2s seem capable of raising is the 10 per cent capital required by building societies before they hand over nine times as much money , which is in turn entrusted to the builders . |
| 8 | UEFA will need to rake in as much money as possible to satisfy powerful clubs used to making their own lucrative television deals . |
| 9 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 10 | Only he truly knows whether they were cheap pictures produced with one aim , to make as much money as possible from the least amount of effort , or whether he had other more high-flown artistic notions in mind . |
| 11 | To be non-envious means to be quite happy if the other player wins just as much money as you do , so long as you both thereby win more from the banker . |
| 12 | The two men are trying to raise as much money as possible towards buying a baby alarm for the Royal surrey , the machines , which cost £435 each , are lent to parents who have lost a child through cot death syndrome , on the birth of their new baby . |
| 13 | Somehow I could n't see it — they did n't have as much money as the Americans for one thing , and that must have inhibited them considerably . |
| 14 | He thinks he can play spoof , but I usually come out of the pub legless with as much money as I went in with . |
| 15 | To be fair to yourself you should be certain that you are bringing in as much money as you should . |
| 16 | ‘ That would mean paying out almost as much money as when Mrs Deacon was here . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The Venetians got up to some tricks trying to extract as much money from the organisation as possible . |
| 18 | Lewis is as pleasant a man as there is in heavyweight boxing and he has every right to make as much money as he can , as quickly as he can . |
| 19 | The lack of apparent activity in the factory was startling at first , but not when you remember that Caterham makes as much money in a year as General Motors does in half an hour . |
| 20 | On the contrary , people must be left with as much money as possible to spend . |
| 21 | ‘ We want to free as much money for programmes as we can . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Like all hospitals , we do n't have as much money as we would like but generally speaking things for us have been getting better , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 24 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 25 | To have as much money to spend as the Trustees of the Getty Museum have in their care is a grave responsibility . |
| 26 | The financial demands made by Rome were in no way oppressive , for in an average year the early Tudor kings were exacting two-and-a-half times as much money from the English church as was the pope . |
| 27 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 28 | This sort of approach suited the violent attitudes of the age : as much money was invested in expeditions for private warfare against Spain as in all the trading and land-settling companies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 29 | Under these conditions your anxiety will be greater , as you are keen to earn as much money as possible in the time allowed . |
| 30 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |