Example sentences of "[det] as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to do this as to suppress anger is to turn our negativity inward . |
| 2 | Struthers and Speight ( 1980 , Ch. 3 ) avoid this as do Howells and Bain ( 1985 , Ch. 3 ) . |
| 3 | Judge Galpin understandably read this as meaning expressio unius exclusio alterius . |
| 4 | The significance of all this as regards locality is that management has clear views about the regions in which these special kinds of worker are to be found . |
| 5 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 6 | It was near twenty years since he had been here , and he had never , to his knowledge , so much as set eyes on any member of the surviving household . |
| 7 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 8 | It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam . |
| 9 | Most villagers were encumbered with the huge broods of the day and it was as much as worn parents could do to keep them warm and fed But John 's parents had time to give . |
| 10 | The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan . |
| 11 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 12 | She 'd never so much as set foot in a rowing boat ! |
| 13 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 14 | Taking part in the arts should also be viewed as a tool for change as much as attending meetings about , say , orange badge provision . |
| 15 | It blew very hard , but not so much as to prevent Messrs. Gould and Gunn going on shore . |
| 16 | To begin with , pure songwriters do n't need managers as much as performing artists . |
| 17 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 18 | The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route . |
| 19 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 20 | Making all due allowance for the return of historical tragedy as farce , watching this soporific monolith of the virtuous rise out of the debris of a liberating movement is akin to nothing so much as witnessing Bureaucracy emerge from the ashes of Revolution . |
| 21 | Most of us will be working part time and voluntary work will be considered work just as much as paid work and in that way we can distribute the enormous amount of work that needs to be done more evenly . |
| 22 | The Treasury saw local councils as part of that strategy just as much as spending departments in Whitehall or the nationalised industries — a very clear ‘ agency ’ view . |
| 23 | I did n't put Debbie 's in because , we do n't ring New Zealand as much as ring Hong Kong , but but I 've thought of it being a dangerous number but I 'm , there it is ! |
| 24 | I shook his hand to calm him as much as to show respect . |
| 25 | Thirty two individuals took part in making it a large competition where endurance was required as much as playing skill . |
| 26 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 27 | Pointers have to be maintained for each of these operations , so time will be spent maintaining pointers ‘ as much as updating data . |
| 28 | Concessionary crownholds were also applicable to ‘ bodies which can effectively supervise the assignment of such houses ’ , such as housing associations . |
| 29 | Section 66(4) defines these as accounting practices that are otherwise required by law ; in addition , ‘ proper practices ’ include those regarded as such by ‘ any generally recognised published code or otherwise ’ ( except that where a given practice conflicts with the law , it is of course the law that takes precedence ) . |
| 30 | There are very many villages with regular rectilinear plans , and we should perhaps now regard these as planned villages , even if we are ignorant of when the planning took place . |