Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ seclusion ’ was not always as complete as the authorities might wish . |
| 2 | I get about as pissed as a bloke can . |
| 3 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 4 | A manager is only as strong as the staff will enable that manager to be ? |
| 5 | My dad 's as brave as a dad can be , |
| 6 | My dad 's as brave as a dad can be , |
| 7 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 8 | Something as simple as a mug can turn a handful of pansies into a vivid display . |
| 9 | The relationship between these rulers and the princes of Ulthuan is not as simple as the titles would suggest . |
| 10 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 11 | And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well . |
| 12 | At the turn of a valve , all this hardware could bring America one hundred thousand barrels a day of Californian heavy crude , as much as the country used to import from Kuwait . |
| 13 | ‘ Ten for you , ten for me and as much as the others can add to it . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's as much as we know , or as much as the Russians will tell us . ’ |
| 15 | Under the Local Government Act 1929 it was the positive duty of the local authority to recover the whole of the expenses ( or as much as the person could afford ) . |
| 16 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 17 | So , on the first day of brushing we just brush as much as the horse will tolerate . |
| 18 | The quarters should be in off the track as much as the shoulders would be in shoulderin , keeping plenty of bend behind the saddle . |
| 19 | We often see the words ‘ feed sparingly several times a day ’ or ‘ feed as much as the fish will eat ’ , but frankly this is very ambiguous . |
| 20 | Dice up the leaves and feed only as much as the fish will consume in ten minutes . |
| 21 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 22 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 23 | Karelius , who had never disliked the French as much as an Englishman should , felt himself warming to his country 's enemies . |
| 24 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 25 | I mean , it 's a double cost whatever you take away , it 's likely to cost twice as much because the Europeans will not put in the other half of the money . |
| 26 | As diverse as the music may be , there is a seam of despondency in Stipe 's words , a world-weary tone of resignation . |
| 27 | He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright . |
| 28 | They may not be as healthy as the makers would like you to think . |
| 29 | She had done sterling service already , and was as inert as a ship can well be — which is actually , as we have already speculated , not quite inert after all . |
| 30 | The night was as black as the Devil would wish . |