Example sentences of "[adv] as much as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 2 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
| 3 | In this way , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance just as much as the reformulation does . |
| 4 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 5 | For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK . |
| 6 | The adult seems to enjoy the experience just as much as the baby does . |
| 7 | It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left . |
| 8 | Not admittedly as much as the argument about whether you can see Schiehallion or not , but certainly enough to end in tears . |
| 9 | I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget . |
| 10 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 11 | For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether it 's actually correct or not but a number of players in Byrne 's team ( Shamrock Rovers , a team I dislike nearly as much as the scum ) have been linked with moves to Elland Road . |
| 13 | It was a pleasant interlude , and we did not mind the delay nearly as much as the captain did . |
| 14 | Willingness to help the unemployed varied locally as much as the incidence of unemployment itself . |
| 15 | This is because salesmen are paid commission up front , which is often as much as the whole of the first year 's premiums . |
| 16 | Victoria , I 've told you already , he appeals to me about as much as a piece of furniture . |
| 17 | I 'm told it usually costs about as much as the building costs . |
| 18 | His sympathy , Lisa judged , was probably worth about as much as the dirt beneath his fingernails — that is , if there had been a speck of dirt present beneath those immaculately manicured items ! |
| 19 | She knew the doctor thought she was a lunatic , but as she would never see her again , it did not matter now as much as the truth . |
| 20 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 21 | As villages grew into towns and towns into cities , the lack of churchyards was felt at least as much as the lack of churches . |
| 22 | Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS . |
| 23 | The first time I bought a soft drink at a roadside stall and began cycling away , I roused a despairing cry : the bottle was worth almost as much as the fizz inside it . |
| 24 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 25 | The comparison shows that the order in which the various cost details were revealed influences people 's choice almost as much as the cost details themselves . |
| 26 | I had it in an Anvil case , and a shipping crate built for it which cost almost as much as the amp did originally , and it got thrown or dropped real badly , did quite a bit of damage to it . |
| 27 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 28 | Nathan returns , suggesting that you need to be in a sheltered spot for minimum discomfort ; he thinks that constipation is to be feared almost as much as the wind . |
| 29 | He loved the sound of those words almost as much as the weight of the gold coins in the priest 's belt . |
| 30 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |