Example sentences of "as [det] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the title suggests it is an appeal as much as a painting , an appeal for a re-establishment of the link between human beings and the rest of nature . |
| 32 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 33 | The other is enclosed by a chimney of mud and stones that may stand as much as a foot tall . |
| 34 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 35 | She went away blithely , the clipboard again in place : a habit , I supposed , as much as a defence . |
| 36 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 42 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 43 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 44 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 47 | Not bad for a car which weighs as much as a Range Rover . |
| 48 | As far as I know he has never received as much as a warning as an amateur or professional . ’ |
| 49 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 50 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 51 | And getting nearly as much as a man got in some . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 54 | The Basque house is an idea as much as a building . |
| 55 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 56 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 57 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 58 | Budget software was fully covered , with great screenshots and as much as a page per game ! |
| 59 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 60 | ‘ A guy can suffer an injury on the first match of a tour or go through a tough schedule without as much as a bump . |