Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client 's image . |
| 2 | They can go into the furtherance of a chosen goal , and here something of the difference between the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ and the male hunter can be glimpsed , for whereas a man may wrestle openly with every difficulty on the way , women can use more precision and grace , choosing moments with care , sensing the atmosphere , and employing only as much force as is necessary . |
| 3 | Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite . |
| 4 | A venture like that needs just as much planning , evaluation , preparation and practice as the international championship . |
| 5 | Having a meal out , especially if you eat out a lot , needs just as much care and good sense as planning a meal in . |
| 6 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 7 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |
| 8 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 9 | We had to , obviously , but the Poll Tax is now all on this modern technology and it does n't need nearly as many staff , and Phyllis will remember in her budget that they did put savings in the Treasurer 's Department for that very reason . |
| 10 | Austin is a good deal smaller than Edinburgh , but has about as much motorway as the UK . |
| 11 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 12 | Nor would it be a significant gesture towards Britain 's 2.5 million Moslem inhabitants , as he suggests , because those Moslems mostly come from the Indian sub-continent , and the Khalili collection has about as much connection with their material culture as a collection of French medieval art has with Czech baroque art . |
| 13 | Yet his own researchers have confirmed that the ‘ British ’ tag on food has about as much impact now as ‘ made in Hong Kong ’ might have had on other commodities a couple of decades ago . |
| 14 | Politics-watchers guess that , had Rajiv Gandhi not been assassinated at the end of the general-election campaign two years ago , the BJP would have won roughly as many seats as Congress . |
| 15 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 16 | Fats are a major source of energy in the diet , and provide twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates for the same amount in weight . |
| 17 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Fresh Start controversy , it is worth noting that research on its effects found twice as many examples of deteriora-tion in prison regimes as of enhancement ( McDermott and King , 1999 ) . |
| 18 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 19 | It 's you making the decisions and doing the work and although I am not suggesting that you will catch twice as many pike , you will certainly catch some which a fast surface retrieve would have missed . |
| 20 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 21 | ‘ In addition to being based on new technology and being over 40 per cent more powerful than its predecessor , the 820 has twice as much memory and this will provide us with the potential to exploit new , more efficient techniques for online applications and batch processing . ’ |
| 22 | For example , party A could win two marginal seats by the barest of margins while party B won one seat with an overwhelming majority ; the aggregate vote for party B in the three seats could well exceed that of party A , but party A has won twice as many seats . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 24 | The spreadsheet at the heart of Symphony is not unlike 1-2-3 and it has almost as extensive range of commands and functions . |
| 25 | In England , as has been shown , both Edward III and Richard II reacted to mercantile opinion expressed in Parliament by impressing large numbers of ships for purposes of defence , such fleets at times employing almost as many soldiers at sea as did field armies on land , all at great expense . |
| 26 | And banks now provide almost as much liquidity for private securities as for public ones . |
| 27 | The immediate post-war years had been the last classic period of the film as social sermon and one can almost sense the relief as the studios discovered that social context did not need quite as much emphasis . |
| 28 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 29 | To be non-envious means to be quite happy if the other player wins just as much money as you do , so long as you both thereby win more from the banker . |
| 30 | Providing that the standard blade is set correctly , that is , the saw teeth only just penetrate the wood being cut , we found that the blade produced just as good results when cross-cutting . |