Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [det] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 2 | ‘ We will set ourselves a budget each year and do only as much as we can afford . |
| 3 | It is a spiritual principle that we will receive only as much as we are prepared to use . |
| 4 | Each time you feed , remember : only as much as they will eat in five minutes . . |
| 5 | You can decide to be imperfect , to do things in your own time , to please yourself , not to be strong and to try only as much as you like . |
| 6 | After 24 hours , fill cavities with a two-part repair material , mixing only as much as you can use in about five minutes ( less in hot weather ) |
| 7 | They want to have babies , but only as many as they can care for . |
| 8 | Get in contact with your lender as soon as you realise that you may have a problem meeting the repayments and continue to pay monthly as much as you can afford . |
| 9 | She took in as many as she could . |
| 10 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 11 | But part of that problem is that I do n't think the course tutors do perhaps as much as they might , I mean they do nowhere near as much as Shirley does |
| 12 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 13 | The region has many characteristics in common with Scotland , perhaps as many as it does with England . |
| 14 | In the eight in which they are second ( Edinburgh Central and South , Angus East , Banff , Fife NE , Renfrew West , Strathkelvin , and Tweeddale ) , their percentages are down as much as they are up . |
| 15 | What I want to do , I want to cut the shopping down as much as I possibly can . |
| 16 | four , I cut that down as much as I could so |
| 17 | We need to break stuff down as much as you can . |
| 18 | You can make that and put down as much as you want and then you roll the dice . |
| 19 | Clara dreaded the vacations , and tried to whittle them down as much as she could , by semi-obligatory study courses , and quasi-essential trips to the continent to learn the languages she was studying , but despite these nibblings and thefts , she still found herself obliged to spend a great deal of time each year in Hartley Road . |
| 20 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 21 | They then have to write down as many as they can . |
| 22 | But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends . |
| 23 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 24 | Not so much as he thought he was . |
| 25 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 26 | Get through as much as you can this afternoon . |
| 27 | They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time . |
| 28 | However , it must be stressed that the High Anglicans reserved their contempt for the Whig bishops ; they recognised that there were some sound bishops ( though not as many as they would like ) , and they remained committed to the defence of the institution of episcopacy . |
| 29 | Not as many as I 'd like |
| 30 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |