Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 2 | It also shows how a combination of these can easily result in a local economic strategy which has clear political as well as economic goals . |
| 3 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 4 | it 's back again to the old fashioned set , I mean I think nothing looks so untidy as to joined writing |
| 5 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 6 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 7 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 8 | Dahrendorf accepts both these as possible contributions , but encompasses them within a much broader idea : the growth of anomia , the failure of a social structure to instil adequate commitment to its conventional moral codes , as crystallized into the criminal law . |
| 9 | At night , when air-conditioners are turned off in Phoenix , the water level drops as much as ten feet . |
| 10 | Sometimes she wants as much as 15 minutes before I 'm allowed to have intercourse . |
| 11 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 12 | But Diana has refused a personal invitation from the Queen to the church service and Christmas lunch — a clear signal that she wants as little as possible to do with the rest of the royals . |
| 13 | The nature of the investor 's interest matters as much as the length of his nose . |
| 14 | Furthermore , no other sequence besides pou[c] contains as much as 21 and 14 unique residues in the POU S and POU HD , respectively . |
| 15 | YOUR HOME MAY LOOK IMMACULATE , but is the air it contains as clean as it could be ? |
| 16 | As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment . |
| 17 | across a lot of papers but in this paper it starts er and as Mr just said it starts as far as incr increments , erm do we know at this time or can we be informed as soon as were informed , where of what , whether implement are erm , like , are restricted by the , the Chancellor 's statement , do we know or , are have we got ta wait ? |
| 18 | It starts as simple as your stepdad asking : ‘ How do you feel today , son ? ’ , and you saying , ‘ Fine ’ when in fact you 're not fine . ’ |
| 19 | Rainey rarely finishes as low as third ( even if he was only a fraction of a second down on Schwantz at Suzuka ) , but at Eastern Creek he proved he 's dynamic as ever . |
| 20 | How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time . |
| 21 | Despite the hardships the population has been warned of , the popularity of the Prime Minister , Mr Tadeusz Mazowiecki , stands as firm as ever , with recent polls showing that 95 per cent of the population support his political goals . |
| 22 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 23 | " With the ability to adapt itself to the changing requirements of the times , the school still lives , and its reputation stands as high as ever among the inhabitants of Stockport and the surrounding districts , and in educational circles beyond the extended parish of Stockport . " |
| 24 | However , amongst education professionals ( primarily teachers ) the proportion stands as high as 66 per cent , perhaps reflecting the practice of certain local authorities of employing all part-time teachers on a temporary basis ( see NUT , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , the modern status of officially recognized ‘ languages ’ , as opposed to ‘ dialects ’ — always a controversial question — obscures the fact that , for instance , Khanty has as many as five ‘ dialects ’ which are by no means mutually comprehensible ; the far-flung Evenki Tungus have at least three groups of dialects , and their cousins the Evens as many as thirteen ; and the Nenets Samoeds of the forest have three rather different ‘ dialects ’ , although those of the tundra have a single common language . |
| 26 | this membrane covers as much as 150 square centimetres in comparison with the 4 square centimetres in our own nose . |
| 27 | If he does n't he counts as many as he can find . |
| 28 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 29 | We have successfully recovered ds DNA fragments as small as 120 bp . |
| 30 | The Film Noir book is equally encyclopaedic as a reference work , and its opinions are sensitive , sensible and totally without those daft claims which even films as good as White Heat and The Woman in the Window ca n't really sustain . |