Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much as just finding the gold . |
| 2 | erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words . |
| 3 | To an outsider visiting Imperial College , some of the departments seem so large as almost to prevent a sense of unity . |
| 4 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 5 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |