Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free City opinions are worth just as much . |
| 2 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 3 | The services referred to below are described as they would relate to a Northern Ireland exporter but it should be realised that similar services are of just as much importance to importers . |
| 4 | And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value . |
| 5 | It may , for example , happen that social group A uses only two variants of a variable , whereas social group B uses three or four , and this type of difference may well be of just as much interest as an absolute difference in phonetic realization . |
| 6 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 7 | The dwindling rain forests of West Africa have attracted international attention of late as many ‘ First World ’ countries are converted to the conservation cause . |
| 8 | Thackeray ‘ s The Virginians and The Newcomes handsomely bound in three-quarter morocco gilt and in half-calf gilt , in each case with marbled sides ; impressive , but not worth nearly as much as the humble original parts in paper wrappers . |
| 9 | Many factory closures are on the way , with perhaps as many as 600,000 jobs at risk . |
| 10 | The larger restaurant is at Blakelands , catering for 450 staff , while there are a regular 150 catered for at Wymbush training centre with perhaps as many again depending on events and courses . |
| 11 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 12 | Notably , they have shuffled assets with just as much vigour . |
| 13 | They can be successfully applied with dip pens , with technical pens and Rotring Artpens , which can be loaded with any colour , performing with just as much fluidity as traditional inks . |
| 14 | The fears they embody need dealing with just as much as the wrong thinking they exhibit . |
| 15 | I have a space to occupy on this earth , you know , I have a space with just as much validity to it as yours or Dad 's or — or the Archbishop of Canterbury 's . |
| 16 | Even so , and despite public scepticism , contemporary art is protected with just as much zeal as are the works of the Old Masters . |
| 17 | I look around at everyone else huffing and puffing in their glows of ecstasy , and realize that I am huffing and puffing with just as much relish . |
| 18 | Nowadays referees are interfered with just as much memos on this , that and everything . |
| 19 | ‘ They are really looking forward to it and are determined to put Liverpool under just as much pressure as at Anfield . |
| 20 | Tigers still exist in China ( very limited numbers in Fukien and Shensi Provinces ) ; Siberia , where they are well protected ; Indo-China , with possibly as many as 2,000 ; India and Nepal , 2,000 ; Sumatra , up to 800 ; Java , only a handful , if any , left . |
| 21 | The government reckoned that Poles were having to cope with about as much economic pain as they would tolerate . |
| 22 | The possibility that future generations will read our textbooks with about as much comprehension as we might scan a Renaissance text on the cabbala is rather unnerving . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought he was perfect for the story and sent him a script with about as much hope as those who put messages in bottles and toss them in the ocean . ’ |
| 24 | There was a time , not so very long ago , when Gatting regarded the Press with about as much affection as Salieri bestowed upon Mozart . |
| 25 | Pavel was feeling as loose and unconnected as a bag of spanners , and with about as much energy . |
| 26 | Then , on a weekend 's trip to Grayshotts Health Farm to recharge the batteries and the credit cards , I attended a lecture on meditation given by a simply marvellous , crumply GP with about as much airy-fairy , guru-y wispiness as , say , Denis Healey , and I was moved to find out more . |
| 27 | It was a sprawling split-level place where you could take on board anything from a glass of beer to a four-course dinner plus the right wines at each course and with about as much choice about where to sit : at tables in the middle at booths and alcoves at the sides on the bar stools on other stools up against long shelves . |
| 28 | He has met with precisely as much , and as little , success as any of his celebrated fellow-magicians . |
| 29 | Phoebe Jarman stared at Jess with almost as much caution as Jess eyed her . |
| 30 | At one time , this rating was credited with almost as much scientific objectivity as a person 's blood group , but now its use is generally limited to self-diagnosis questionnaires in Sunday supplements . |