Example sentences of "[verb] every bit [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the idea dated way back to Sydney Newman 's original brief about the series , as handed to Donald Wilson , where he expressed a wish to see a show done with an everyday garden made to appear every bit as hostile as an alien planet . |
| 2 | Despite the hard work invested in service provision for men , women have had to struggle every bit as hard as gay men a few years earlier , to carve out services for themselves . |
| 3 | When , later , ‘ The Daleks ’ took the viewing public by storm David Whitaker contributed every bit as much as Terry Nation to the wave of Dalekmania which threatened to overwhelm the toyshops , book counters , newspaper stands , cinema aisles and theatre seats of Great Britain . |
| 4 | And yet cricket is , according to most informed estimates , played every bit as much in the mind as with the eyes , hands and feet . |
| 5 | He did , in fact , look every bit as formidable in his sleep as he did when awake . |
| 6 | A look of imprisonment and confinement which spoke of a need to escape every bit as strong as that felt by the eagles . |
| 7 | At the heart of the urgent appeal of such songs are Tom 's strident vocals , which sound every bit as doomy and forceful as the material demands . |
| 8 | I bought some of more recent manufacture in an auction earlier this year , and these seem every bit as good as the originals . |
| 9 | We wo n't produce any interesting generalizations , we wo n't succeed in predicting new phenomena , and the world will remain every bit as confusing as it was previously . |
| 10 | His 1911 book Political Parties argued that these organizations supposedly committed to ushering in democratic organization in fact showed all the essential characteristics of bureaucratic organizations , and a separation between leaders and led every bit as pronounced as that prevailing in industry or state agencies . |
| 11 | Unani medicine is regarded every bit as seriously as conventional western treatment and it is quite distinct from the dubious folk-medicine offered to passers-by by roadside fakirs , or Balvinder Singh 's freckle-destroying friends in the Meena Bazaar . |
| 12 | It had shocked Vi to realize that her own side fought every bit as dirty as the Germans and that German seamen were torpedoed , too . |
| 13 | Helped in the crucial early years by Brian Close , his — and Garner 's — loyalty to their adopted country became every bit as great as Clive Lloyd 's to Lancashire . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's thinking , my boys , ’ their father told them , ‘ she 's thinking of taking the place of your mother , because she 's thinking she 's become every bit as pretty as her , God rest her soul indeed . |
| 15 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 16 | He looked every bit as ridiculous as he feared . |
| 17 | Subjectively it feels every bit as fast as its maker claims , but what really impresses is the torque . |
| 18 | The groove proved every bit as fierce as the crack , straining arm muscles and will to the limit : bloody ridiculous for 4c … |
| 19 | ‘ The Carmina Quartet … proved every bit as remarkable as the advance publicity claimed . ’ |
| 20 | They concluded that the goals for the new programme were ambitious , maybe too ambitious , but that this was a programme to be taken every bit as seriously as its predecessor . |
| 21 | The students are hoping to arrange their own type of wine run , distributing New Release around Gloucestershire , in the hope that it 'll prove every bit as popular as it 's French rival . |
| 22 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 23 | The precocious young Perkins promises every bit as much as team-mate Ian Owen , a teenage defender of rare composure , who is also attracting the League scouts . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm really looking forward to linking up with David because I believe we can go on to become every bit as good as the partnership I had with Ian . ’ |
| 25 | Would you like to feel every bit as good as the next person ? |
| 26 | When I say working , I include just everyday general obedience , for I class this as working every bit as much as training dogs up to very high Schutzhund standard . |