Example sentences of "[verb] as [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the investor 's interest matters as much as the length of his nose . |
| 2 | A year before his death he was still reminding Du Camp about his surprise arrival with the young phenomenon , and still laughing as much as the day it had happened . |
| 3 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 4 | All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person ! |
| 5 | Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation . |
| 6 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 7 | Seen from this vantage point , those microprocessor-based products whose introduction into non-domestic premises the British Government is currently endorsing appear as more than a simple technical solution to a particular economic problem — the conservation of energy . |
| 8 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 11 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 12 | There was a period when only McQueen and Dustin were getting their per diem allowance , something they did not need as much as the rest of the cast and crew . |
| 13 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 14 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 15 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 16 | Seven years old … second time round the clock … charecterful … but it 'll fetch as much as a new one would in Britain . |
| 17 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 18 | ‘ Any suggestion that the one-day internationals do n't matter as much as the Tests is not right and is certainly at variance with the way the players view it . ’ |
| 19 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 20 | She will deposit as many as a dozen eggs there . |
| 21 | According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself . |
| 22 | And Chaucer 's portrait of the miller has probably done as much as the hated medieval monopoly to give the miller a black mark . |
| 23 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 24 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 25 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 26 | It covers quickly and does n't splash as much as the sponge varieties . |
| 27 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 28 | Our nice respectable sins need cleansing as much as the worse possible sins . |
| 29 | Bill Lockhart and Betty Street have also achieved international fame for the quilted effects on their Texan creations , where the sewing skills are admired as much as the medley of geometric colour patterns . |
| 30 | A flimsy paper-bag costs as much as a Chinese pound of beansprouts . |