Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essential to this is making the measurement and reporting of performance against plan meaningful — and that goes as much for the board as the managers . |
| 2 | The measure of that lies as much in the minor elements as in the headline-grabbing reforms of taxation and expenditure policy . |
| 3 | This has as much to do with the aural texture of guitar-based rock as with funk or soul , and their records often fail to gain airplay on rap specialist radio shows . |
| 4 | This looks as eye-like to the predator as the real eye , and gives the prey a fifty-fifty chance of losing its head . |
| 5 | This owes as much to the country 's past success as to the ruling party 's new tact . |
| 6 | This owes as much to the location of the ring , as to the size of the stones : given the view across the countryside , with nearby lower hills , and distant smooth green fields , a full moon over Strichen will have conveyed powerful mystery . |
| 7 | AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners . |
| 8 | This says as much to me as any artfully contrived moussette . |
| 9 | This raises as many questions , though , as it answers . |
| 10 | To unlock this requires as much knowledge of the Vedas , the ancient holy books of the Hindus , as The Satanic Verses does of the Koran . |
| 11 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 12 | Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy . |
| 13 | Stripped of its grammatical appendages and reduced to lexical essentials this appears as three words : |
| 14 | This applies as much to the terminally ill patient as to any other . |
| 15 | This applies as much to business organizations as it does to public sector organizations . |
| 16 | This applies as much to external users of the information as it does to internal users . |
| 17 | In total , this presents as accurate a picture as possible of national , regional and local values . |
| 18 | Golding and Middleton argued that the " focusing of moral outrage on items like this does as much to create concern as to reflect it . " |
| 19 | This poses as much of a challenge for a future Labour government bent on reform as for Kenneth Clarke and his colleagues . |
| 20 | This leaves as possible choices Economic value which may be difficult to ascertain , Replacement cost of a similar vehicle , written-down cost , and historic cost . |
| 21 | This suggests as much as a triple purpose in Kant 's analysis of our concern for animals . |
| 22 | None of this comes as much surprise to sausage supremo Bill O'Hagan . |
| 23 | If that happens as normal , then the puffins have a better chance of survival . |
| 24 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 25 | Complex natural ecosystems are replaced by unsustainable simple ones , with a resulting loss of biodiversity — and that applies as much in the de-natured agricultural prairies of Alberta and East Anglia as it does to the hamburger ranches of Brazil . |
| 26 | That applies as much to hon. Members opposite , to whose arguments for improving the system under their regime I look forward , as to other hon. Members with their proposals about what should be done about it . |
| 27 | Experience shows that insufficient involvement can soon lead to frustration and dissatisfaction which can only damage the firm ; and that applies as much to assistant solicitors and salaried partners as to equity partners . |
| 28 | That applies as much in the case of an unconscious plaintiff as in the case of one who is sentient : compare , for example , Wise v Kay [ 1962 ] 1 QB 638 with Andrews v Freeborough ( 1966 ) 110 SJ 407 . |
| 29 | If I 'm going to be a stand-in for him , even temporarily , like this , I really need to know more about him , and that seems as good a way as any . |
| 30 | Sadly , that remains as true in 1992 as when it was written in 1989 . |