Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Free City opinions are worth just as much .
2 The services referred to below are described as they would relate to a Northern Ireland exporter but it should be realised that similar services are of just as much importance to importers .
3 ‘ You 're in early again this morning , ’ he said as Endill collected his climbing equipment for the fifteenth time that week .
4 Yesterday , the market was left with the impression that Midland might not be worth quite as much as analysts had hoped and the shares were marked back 7 to 365p .
5 And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value .
6 It may , for example , happen that social group A uses only two variants of a variable , whereas social group B uses three or four , and this type of difference may well be of just as much interest as an absolute difference in phonetic realization .
7 The Duchess 's answer to the eagerness of so many to attend her ball had been to have tickets of admission printed , yet , even so , Bristow expected there to be at least as many interlopers as ticket holders .
8 Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS .
9 In other words , to explain or understand crime and deviance we must be at least as much concerned with the activities of the conferers of these labels as with the recipients .
10 What I keep trying to tell him is that if you do something like this , this space underneath has to be at least as much between the top of the S as the and the baseline and they sell them .
11 As a guide , the depth of the swag and inner edges of the tails should be approximately one sixth the overall curtain length , but the outer edge of the tails should be at least twice this depth .
12 Also , we were in much too much of a hurry .
13 Women smokers are at just as much risk as men and at even greater risk if over the age of thirty-five and on the pill .
14 There are at least as many home records as synonyms in all circumstances ( Table 6.5 shows that , even with 100 per cent packing and randomizing to individual record positions , 50 per cent of records are home records ; with a two-pass load 63 per cent are home records ) .
15 There are at least as many recognisably different " schools " of linguistics throughout the world as there were before the " Chomsky revolution " .
16 I 'm also well aware that for all the people who take thirtysomething to their hearts , there are at least as many who ca n't abide it .
17 Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ?
18 Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping .
19 If you locate your own specimens it is worth so very much more than catching one with a name .
20 John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it .
21 McDunn 's in very early this morning ; we 're here in the same old interview room .
22 Macy 's , a department-store chain , is in nearly as much trouble .
23 ‘ Curtain up is in just over half an hour .
24 ‘ My flat is in almost as much of a mess as the office .
25 Note that the major peak is at 250μV whereas the smaller peak is at about twice this amplitude .
26 The reason must surely be that , ‘ like most vigorous debates over economic policy , it is at least as much about power as about economics ,
27 The first time I bought a soft drink at a roadside stall and began cycling away , I roused a despairing cry : the bottle was worth almost as much as the fizz inside it .
28 Not that she was in quite so much awe of the Larks since Sir Felix had failed to marry Gemma .
29 She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful .
30 The Dutch campaign was at least as much on our own behalf as on yours .
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