Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The altered structure of society — the small family size , the small dwelling unit , the substitution of mechanical aids for domestic service — has contributed as much as the mere increased expectation of survival to this striking phenomenon of a large and increasing number of aged and isolated individuals . |
| 2 | It is an uninhabited and notoriously hostile desert , which has contributed as much as the Nile 's cataracts to the historical isolation of Sudan . |
| 3 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 4 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 5 | ‘ Parents see behaviour at home and school as separate — as if there 's no connection ’ The art of teaching has become almost incidental as the role of social worker has increased , says Douglas Fraser |
| 6 | But , so , oddly enough , does much of the statistical and purely ‘ factual ’ material which has become more abundant as the state extends its role . |
| 7 | OF ALL the fads spurred by the onset of the single European market , none has proved as damning as the one that might be called ‘ Euronomia ’ : an uncontrollable compulsion to include ‘ Euro ’ in company names . |
| 8 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 9 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 10 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 11 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 12 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 13 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |
| 14 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 15 | It might have sounded as flippant as the question was importunate . |
| 16 | By later blackboard-jungle classroom-rebel standards he would have appeared as disciplined as a fearful nun . |
| 17 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 18 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 19 | By 1880 he was turning to German models , and as business increased ( he is believed to have employed as many as a hundred men ) production became stereotyped . |
| 20 | The 1006 supernova , in Lupus ( the Wolf ) is believed to have become as brilliant as the quarter-Moon . |
| 21 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 22 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 23 | The rift between the two doctors had grown steadily wider as the siege progressed . |
| 24 | It had grown less incongruous as the town grew towards it . |
| 25 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 26 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 27 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 28 | In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road . |
| 29 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 30 | The walk-in had got steadily worse as the altitude began to tell , but all that now lay behind us . |