Example sentences of "as [det] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 2 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 3 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 4 | This suggests as much as a triple purpose in Kant 's analysis of our concern for animals . |
| 5 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 6 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 7 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 8 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 9 | Not quite as much as a hot summer 's day . |
| 10 | Detroit , Michigan-based Compuware says the deal will enable it to release CICS fault diagnosis products the same time as new IBM CICS releases , so giving it as much as a three-month lead over its rivals . |
| 11 | It 's a cultural as much as a commercial problem . |
| 12 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 13 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 14 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 15 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 16 | Trax costs about twice as much as a conventional walkway . |
| 17 | She would cut off her right arm and give it to him if he came over with as much as a single bag . |
| 18 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 19 | The snake is still finding enough strength to thrash around as much as a flying snake might dare . |
| 20 | A flimsy paper-bag costs as much as a Chinese pound of beansprouts . |
| 21 | It was a small army as much as a large family . |
| 22 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 23 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 24 | Not as much as a secondhand Union Jack left . ’ |
| 25 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 26 | As for covering up the work , Crack Wars nees that about as much as an Egyptian mummy needs a paper bag over its head . |