Example sentences of "as [det] [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 2 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 3 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 4 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 5 | Planning and reviewing should be implicit in any team meeting — as much as the actual activity . |
| 6 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 7 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 8 | It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka each month . |
| 9 | If this move is sound , our second sceptical argument attacks the notion of justified belief at least as much as the first argument does ; in fact even more , because it is more global . |
| 10 | Yeah well some but not as much as the Communist Party |
| 11 | The stabled horse can not touch as much as the paddocked horse , nor can it scratch or have any reassuring contact with a companion . |
| 12 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
| 13 | Sometime between 1806 and 1813 the twisting action we know today as remuage evolved , but it was the angled cut of the holes as much as the twisting motion which provided the key to the solution sought by the widow . |
| 14 | It is as much as the developing world is paying every week to service its debts . " |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it was the economic climate , as much as the renewed trade union and working-class support for Labour , which contributed significantly to Labour 's victory in the 1929 General Election . |
| 16 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 17 | He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power . |
| 18 | A race or two on prize day at the local school , modesty insisting on decent skirts and proper bloomers underneath them , was as much as the Irish girl was permitted . |
| 19 | Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture . |
| 20 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 21 | Clive liked to hurt people as much as the next person , felt the need to confirm his power over others , but Mr Skinner was a specialist , an expert . |
| 22 | All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person ! |
| 23 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 24 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 25 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 26 | The partner and the partnership need looking at as much as the unfaithful spouse . |
| 27 | ( That is to say , the fit between meanings and perceptions is a matter of social convention , just as much as the historical process by which each language comes to have its own particular set of word forms for the meanings which it uses . |
| 28 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 29 | The state earnings related pension ( SERP ) scheme also tends to disadvantage women as much as the basic pension , and recent changes to the SERP scheme have worsened their position . |
| 30 | It is estimated that this will cost 10 times as much as the original research . |