Example sentences of "be [prep] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 2 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 3 | Alexis and Paul Gilmour are behind the campaign and they are after as many signatures as possible . |
| 4 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |
| 5 | For your life , you must answer truthfully : do you think they 're worth as much as you ? |
| 6 | The big houses are selling up ; they are in as much dire distress financially as the working classes . |
| 7 | If these relaxations are approved , the market could be worth as much as £450m a year . |
| 8 | Market research company Inteco forecasts that the European multimedia market could be worth as much as £10bn by 1994 . |
| 9 | SUSSEX have won a three-year sponsorship deal with Merrydown Cider which could be worth as much as £250,000 . |
| 10 | That morning he had visited several estate agents , and his researches indicated that Number 29 might be worth as much as £80,000 . |
| 11 | Columbus-America investors spent more than $ 12 million , in large part to develop a sophisticated unmanned submersible , called Nemo , for a return that may be worth as much as $ 1 billion . |
| 12 | UAL chairman Stephen Wolf , who is under pressure from the rest of his board to deliver the company from its limbo state since the original $6.75billion buyout plan was dropped , began another round of talks this week with the airline 's employees and union leaders to raise support for a bid likely to be worth as little as $4.5billion . |
| 13 | The standard price of village cattle ranged from ten to twenty rupees a head , but those in poor condition could be worth as little as five rupees and bulls from India as much as eighty rupees . |
| 14 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 15 | Because of difficulties with his squad getting time off work , Kelly fears he could be without as many as five players . |
| 16 | Weapons and armour , measured in the equivalent of cows , have been quoted as being worth as much as : |
| 17 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 18 | We are at as much of a disadvantage as the team we are playing , ’ he added . |
| 19 | We suggest that six is about as many as an observer can cope with . |
| 20 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 21 | It is not as though the law adopts , or still less , creates for its own peculiar purposes and processes a special view of ownership , one which is worth as much or as little as any other view . |
| 22 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 23 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 24 | The terms of exchange between manufacturers and agricultural produce moved swiftly to the disadvantage of the towns ; a pair of boots which in 1913 had been worth 283lb. of rye flour was worth as little as 133lb. by May 1922 . |
| 25 | With upwards of four-fifths of people here having less than 30s. in personal property , nobody at all was worth as much as 40s. in one township out of every three , especially upland ones like Arncliff , Hellifield and Kettlewell , though these were not the only ones . |
| 26 | He was in as much turmoil as she . |
| 27 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |