Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [adj] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I offer to you as much as I possess , and so much as old age has left me , with the utmost satisfaction , as being at least a testimony to the instruction and delight that I have received from your marvellous invention . |
| 2 | Almost half the book is concerned with ‘ applications ’ , but these are theoretical applications of quantum mechanics , and this book is not so useful as such classic works as C. A. Coulson 's Valence . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'll get more dangerous as this marriage wears on unless you stay away from him ! ’ |
| 4 | The changes that are taking place , especially in relation to bus passengers , are wide and varied and are becoming more important as each week goes by . |
| 5 | Comparatively few consultants had directly approached search firms for a job , but this is becoming more the case , especially in the USA , and will become more common as executive search becomes more generally accepted and regarded as an attractive career in its own right . |
| 6 | I found the game easier to play than the EGA version and the graphics are much better , which is hardly surprising as this game requires a VGA graphics card . |
| 7 | That was true when this century began ; it is still true as this century draws to its close . |
| 8 | Dendrograms of this type are notoriously labile as new information appears and opinion changes . |
| 9 | ‘ It has already been agreed that the company will be as generous as British law allows , ’ Muldoon said reassuringly . |
| 10 | There is in fact a flaw in such reasoning , because a dogmatic kind of agnosticism is possible : agnosticism just as much as religious faith rests on its own assumptions which can betray key-hole vision . |
| 11 | WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off . |
| 12 | However , the conditional statement wears its meaning on its face , as much as any statement does . |
| 13 | Obviously the activity of a pair of adult foxes feeding a family which could number as many as eight cubs has a quite drastic effect on the local rabbit population . |
| 14 | For the duration of the mela as many as twenty pilgrim trains a day , each carrying a thousand passengers , might be brought into Allahabad in addition to the normal traffic . |
| 15 | But erm as far as financial incentive goes , erm it was about a year or so after erm I started there I think when er they introduced it , the erm war bonus , which was a supplement to normal salaries |
| 16 | And as far as non-elected bodies goes about two fifths of all public money is now spent by quangos who are not accountable to the people of this country in any way shape or form so I recommend all of these decisions , including paragraph B. |
| 17 | Answer : by turning in a record with echoes of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison , which must be as close as popular music comes to high seriousness and sainthood , to being untrammelled by earthly concerns like chart success . |
| 18 | Modern heating appliances of all types are generally well-designed , unobtrusive , and as efficient as current technology allows . |
| 19 | It will , I hope , become increasingly clear as this book progresses that it is essential to understand science as an historically evolving body of knowledge and that a theory can only be adequately appraised if due attention is paid to its historical context . |