Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation has made them worth as little as 1/2p . |
| 2 | It is not worth our while because we can not redeem them for as much as they would get for five- or 10-dollar bills . ’ |
| 3 | Carbon , glass , boron , graphite , hexagon , all seem lifeless to me ; and high-modulus , high-strength aerospace technology leaves me about as cold as deep-frozen Arctic char . |
| 4 | Warm Hearted Weekends are yours from as little as £22 per person per night . |
| 5 | Well , there are next door neighbours , who I think are very nice , but I do n't think that Jackie and Ned got a lot in common with them that 's , tha that 's one house that adjoins them and then a little further on , its a lane , its about as wide as this Brenda . |
| 6 | People live in the real world , their not really going to be influenced , its about as sensible as saying er a Mills and Boon novel for example tells people about love are saying M I five use from Russia with Love as a training manual its the same kind of level of |
| 7 | As a consequence , he may find himself with as many as forty eggs in his charge . |
| 8 | It looked impossibly quaint , although nothing like as appealing as those far-off places of her imagination . |
| 9 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |
| 10 | Some hardware can be fairly portable but nothing like as easy as a bound book . |
| 11 | In sum , the general impression to be gained from the literature is that industrial profits were slimmed over the period , but by nothing like as much as bald balance sheet figures suggest , and that an easing in the cost of finance over the 1960s was followed by a hardening in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | Moreover , the commercial spin-off from defence research has proved to be nothing like as great as the gains made from comparable expenditures on industrial research [ Peck , 1968 ] . |
| 13 | Moreover , even when ‘ means-testing ’ is a factor , for some of the benefits income levels are nothing like as low as many people imagine . |
| 14 | The opposition in England 's group was nothing like as strong as they faced in winning the HDM tournament in Holland before Christmas . |
| 15 | I go back to Chelmsford most weekends and manage to see my daughter quite regularly , though our relationship is still nothing like as close as it was before my arrest . |
| 16 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 17 | Nothing like as far as Spring Hill Lane . |
| 18 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |
| 19 | Yet language is nothing like as static as we think . |
| 20 | Her nightdress was nothing like as pretty as Maman 's , no lace , only broderie anglaise the same as edged Nicandra 's drawers ( " knickers " and panties " were common words , not to be used . |
| 21 | Although nothing like as corrupt as the practices of Lloyd George and his broker Maundy Gregory , when a visitor to his office at 38 Parliament Street could buy a knighthood , baronetcy or peerage , depending upon whether he wished to spend £10,000 or £100,000 , there are plenty of signs of a correspondence between political donations and the receipt of honours . |
| 22 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 23 | Officials argue that the rise in the yen , so far , is nothing like as steep as the near doubling of the currency which occurred after the 1985 Plaza Accord . |
| 24 | That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr . |
| 25 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 26 | Our defeat [ at the October 1974 general election ] was nothing like as heavy as most of us had feared . |
| 27 | Yet we do know , now , that the world 's waters are the world 's essential regulators : of global temperature , and of the chemistry of the atmosphere — which is nothing like so invariable as we might like to suppose . |
| 28 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 29 | And I do n't want you to as much as speak to her from now on . |
| 30 | And you can pick up a good one for as little as £25,000 . |