Example sentences of "[adv] as much [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 2 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 3 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 4 | All engineers know about stress concentrations but a good many do n't really in their hearts believe in them since it is clearly contrary to common sense that a tiny hole should weaken a material just as much as a great big one . |
| 5 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
| 6 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 7 | For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone . |
| 8 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 9 | In person , however , they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank . |
| 10 | It was my duty to nurture and encourage only those with potential and he had about as much as a Mike Channon betting tip . |
| 11 | You 're like every other man I 've ever met , you assume a woman who looks like me ca n't feel complete without a man , but , as a much wiser woman than I once said , a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle . ’ |
| 12 | Victoria , I 've told you already , he appeals to me about as much as a piece of furniture . |
| 13 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 14 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 15 | But they have Richard Littlejohn and he weighs at least as much as a bison . |
| 16 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 17 | This is , again , a media argument almost as much as a creative one , but there is a lot of evidence , mainly from direct response , that cost-effectiveness decreases over a certain size of ad . |
| 18 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 19 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 20 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 21 | Trax costs about twice as much as a conventional walkway . |
| 22 | Not quite as much as a hot summer 's day . |
| 23 | He demonstrates how when the patient is helped to weep the kidneys can produce sometimes as much as a litre of urine . |