Example sentences of "[det] as [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J.T. Murphy saw this as marking a definite departure from the limited aims of the League . |
| 2 | We interpret this as giving an upper flux limit of 0.15mCrab for these regions . |
| 3 | However , we are very keen to encourage centres not to interpret this as meaning a separate assessment instrument for every outcome . |
| 4 | Some see this as indicating a constant relegation battle come the winds of March , but I believe it is only from such a lowly position , lulling opponents into a false sense of security , that we can wreak havoc on the rest of the League . |
| 5 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 6 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 7 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 8 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 9 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 10 | She brought from under her shawl an untidy sheaf of documents and handed them to Emily without so much as bobbing a polite curtsy . |
| 11 | Repair was very expensive , nearly as much as purchasing a new unit . |
| 12 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 13 | A stall on the pavement as you see is not the same as having a proper shop , In the summer it gets so hot . |
| 14 | Add a positive number is the same as a these are all the things you do with positive numbers , this is add a positive number is the same as add a positive number , right . |
| 15 | But a week or so in a holiday cottage is n't the same as becoming a permanent resident . |
| 16 | And again if the signs are the same , I mean I know they 're not exactly the same this is and add and that 's a positive , it 's the same as adding a positive number . |