Example sentences of "every bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |
| 2 | Their ontological status is therefore every bit as secure as the status of unobserved theoretical entities in other sciences ( for example quarks in subatomic physics ) . |
| 3 | We wo n't produce any interesting generalizations , we wo n't succeed in predicting new phenomena , and the world will remain every bit as confusing as it was previously . |
| 4 | What is more , he shows every bit as much priming from these unrecognized faces as he does from names ( which , of course , he can recognize overtly ) . |
| 5 | In his blue Guernsey sweater he looked every bit an old sea dog . |
| 6 | All the same , there is by and large a crucial difference here between British and American attitudes , and one that is today every bit as marked as it was in 1912 . |
| 7 | The left is in a small minority in every bit of the party that matters — the executive , the Shadow Cabinet , the party conference . |
| 8 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 9 | Subjectively it feels every bit as fast as its maker claims , but what really impresses is the torque . |
| 10 | Alfa Proteo , better looking than the SZ and every bit as likely to make production |
| 11 | Here , the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important . |
| 12 | The magic was every bit as exciting the second time around as it had been with William . |
| 13 | Cannelini beans replaced tinned and a bechamel mixed with Pecorino Romano from Lina Stores , Brewer Street , London W1 , stood in for the cottage cheese , It was every bit as good as the original , if somewhat more sophisticated . |
| 14 | In south Yorkshire during the forties , we were particularly disapproving of the sort of woman who ‘ puts on every bit of cheap jewellery that she 's got ’ . |
| 15 | HORROR at what is happening in Romania is every bit as justified — even if the details of the killings in Timisoara are obscure — as the global protest at the events six months ago in Tiananmen Square . |
| 16 | Every bit of information processed requires energy . |
| 17 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 18 | Helped in the crucial early years by Brian Close , his — and Garner 's — loyalty to their adopted country became every bit as great as Clive Lloyd 's to Lancashire . |
| 19 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 20 | He hit him with his clenched fist with every bit of strength in him . |
| 21 | Then he took it out to the back and burnt every bit of paper in his Dad 's incinerator . |
| 22 | These units may be every bit as difficult to define and handle , conceptually at least , as the fleas themselves . |
| 23 | Koons takes the photograph in his hand and smiles impishly , looking every bit the boy-next-door in his Reeboks , jeans and button-down shirt . |
| 24 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 25 | Reagan found understanding of the other side every bit as hard . |
| 26 | Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions . |
| 27 | Instructors were expected to attend an instructional techniques course since the skill to instruct well was every bit as important as the craft skill . |
| 28 | Family farms were just as prone to emergencies as the larger units , whose labour force normally lived nearby , and their need for ‘ on site ’ housing was every bit as critical . |
| 29 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
| 30 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |