Example sentences of "[adj] as [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably this means that not only are individual consciousnesses unique but that the consciousnesses of one epoch may differ as greatly from those of another as do the construed worlds of a polar Eskimo and a city dweller in New York . |
| 2 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 3 | ‘ If you so much as whisper a word about Dame Agatha to the Lady Maeve , you will regret the day I ever plucked you out of Newgate ! ’ |
| 4 | In 1995 Japan will own a tenth of all American assets , a figure brought about in part because of the weakness of the dollar against the yen , but also because the Japanese manage to save three times as much as do the Americans , and have that much more spare money to invest . |
| 5 | As it seems to me , in principle a covenant by a third party guaranteeing the performance by the tenant of his obligations should touch and concern the reversion as much as do the tenants ' covenants themselves . |
| 6 | Such an approach does not usually analyse nationalism so much as confirm the claims of the nationalist . |
| 7 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 8 | Eventually the two values in column one become effectively equal as do the two values in column two . |
| 9 | ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out . |
| 10 | You 've got a hundred — a hundred degrees in the day time and you 've got freezing conditions at night and literally just , people are lying , lying on the floor shaking at night time , erm they 're beginning to lose children , they have n't had an er epidemic of disease yet , you know they 're definitely going to get one , er and then the other big problem is er to coordinate a massive air lift , and it 's going to have to be an air lift , you know as , as big as say the Berlin air lift . |
| 11 | Add a positive number is the same as a these are all the things you do with positive numbers , this is add a positive number is the same as add a positive number , right . |
| 12 | Add take away a negative number is the same as add the positive number . |
| 13 | The interesting one is when we 've got take away a minus three , that 's the same as add the positive three , add plus three . |