Example sentences of "[det] as [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
| 2 | Japanese engineers are also adding some flourishes , such as steel rods inside the rubber bearings to prevent the isolators deforming too much as they absorb vibrations . |
| 3 | Some of the advisers brought into government by Mrs Thatcher disliked the old-style Conservatism almost as much as they detested socialism . |
| 4 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 5 | Only people can do these things , and people we need as much as we need money . |
| 6 | Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information . |
| 7 | The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine . |
| 8 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 9 | Quite independent of the way higher education may be funded , there is a need for higher education institutions to rethink their role and function just as much as it behoves industry , commerce and the public services . |
| 10 | Britain needs chemists as much as it needs doctors and as a result there will be high employment prospects for chemistry graduates in the future . |
| 11 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 12 | When this scheme was unveiled , it terrified laymen ( including many Tory MPs ) almost as much as it infuriated doctors . |
| 13 | The British establishment dislikes Mr Rowland almost as much as he covers Harrods . |
| 14 | erm I do n't think he exists as much as he used Norbert wants something . |
| 15 | He loved cats as much as he loved women . |
| 16 | As much as I like dogs , I would n't do that . |
| 17 | First of all let me state I like him as much as I like Cuntona . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 19 | And as much as I hate Roy at times … ’ she began to cry again ‘ … |
| 20 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 21 | I never thought it was possible to love anyone as much as I love Maureen . ’ |
| 22 | As much as she loved Lizzy , and as much as she wanted to help her , without her job they would all be up a creek without a paddle . |
| 23 | There was always something comforting about Ben : she felt that she loved him as much as she did Mrs Aggie . |
| 24 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 25 | Good morning Vincent , I 'm enclosing copies of faxes received this morning from New Zealand , and certainly the rate quoted is more realistic , then drop down a line and put eighteen by two point nine five pounds , oblique kilo , equals fifty three pounds , ten pence , next line documentation , twenty pounds , next line customs clearance etcetera , thirteen New Zealand dollars , I 'd say Irish pounds , three point three , O , O equals nine pounds approximately and total it up , eighty two pounds , ten pence which is approximately a third less as you see David suggests you lean heavily on Air Lingus and point out at the same time that Challenge Seeds have no intention of paying this exorbitant rate , also what is a consolidation rate ? |
| 26 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 27 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 28 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |
| 29 | He looked at her unyielding face , and something seemed to give in his own as he gave way to frustration and bad temper , let alone physical exhaustion . |