Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | So , on the first day of brushing we just brush as much as the horse will tolerate . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | As diverse as the music may be , there is a seam of despondency in Stipe 's words , a world-weary tone of resignation . |
| 7 | The night was as black as the Devil would wish . |
| 8 | ‘ Something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes , ’ the Prince told an interviewer in 1982 , in a remark which gives some clue to the task he set himself . |
| 9 | The current Prince of Wales has been quoted as saying that ‘ something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes … after all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it ’ ( quoted in Rose , 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 10 | I had a slow-growing tumour in the lung and it would take time to reach obnoxious proportions , but as sure as the moon will rise and set and the tides with it , so my tumour would go on grinding away until … |
| 11 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 12 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 13 | Put in as many as the bottle will hold conveniently , and put it in a warm sunny place for 12 hours , and keep warm for the next 12 , then remove the spikes . |
| 14 | The Hwange national park alone is said to have 45,000 elephants : three times as many as the vegetation can support . |
| 15 | A loosely folded cloth should be dipped , or otherwise copiously wetted , with clean water , as hot as the hand can bear , holding as much as possible . |
| 16 | They begin to give the colour back to Isaac 's cheeks , but they are as far as the storyteller will go . |
| 17 | Its fragrance possessed the odour of amber , and hyacinths , basils , roses and tulips were blooming as far as the eye could reach . |
| 18 | As far as the eye can see I mean . |
| 19 | Another in the series which will help the modern reader keep things in perspective is Susan Thomas on the Bristol Riots , which shocked the nation in 1831 , caused massive destruction in the city centre , in comparison with which the St Paul 's riots ( never as bad as the press would make out ) look like a tea party . |
| 20 | Confronting and accepting the reason for the tension is often the best way of dealing with it , since if you look logically at the cause it is often not as bad as the imagination would suggest . |