Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [det] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The altered structure of society — the small family size , the small dwelling unit , the substitution of mechanical aids for domestic service — has contributed as much as the mere increased expectation of survival to this striking phenomenon of a large and increasing number of aged and isolated individuals . |
| 2 | It is an uninhabited and notoriously hostile desert , which has contributed as much as the Nile 's cataracts to the historical isolation of Sudan . |
| 3 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 4 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 5 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 6 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 7 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 8 | By 1880 he was turning to German models , and as business increased ( he is believed to have employed as many as a hundred men ) production became stereotyped . |
| 9 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 10 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 11 | In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road . |
| 12 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 13 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 14 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 15 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |