Example sentences of "have [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |
| 2 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 3 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 4 | Now such a meal , as any dietician will tell you , is far too rich in nitrogenous substances , since fish has just as much assimilable albumen as meat , and contains a great deal more phosphorus … " |
| 5 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 6 | Austin is a good deal smaller than Edinburgh , but has about as much motorway as the UK . |
| 7 | Nor would it be a significant gesture towards Britain 's 2.5 million Moslem inhabitants , as he suggests , because those Moslems mostly come from the Indian sub-continent , and the Khalili collection has about as much connection with their material culture as a collection of French medieval art has with Czech baroque art . |
| 8 | Yet his own researchers have confirmed that the ‘ British ’ tag on food has about as much impact now as ‘ made in Hong Kong ’ might have had on other commodities a couple of decades ago . |
| 9 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 10 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 11 | Jimmy has x chickens , but his friend Mark , has twice as many as Jimmy . |
| 12 | ‘ In addition to being based on new technology and being over 40 per cent more powerful than its predecessor , the 820 has twice as much memory and this will provide us with the potential to exploit new , more efficient techniques for online applications and batch processing . ’ |
| 13 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 14 | The sense of outrage has almost as much to do with the invasion of a hallowed shrine of old Boston as with the robbery . |
| 15 | The French have had just as much trouble sticking to the principles enunciated at La Baule . |
| 16 | I tell you what Kevin if you 'd done Europe I think you 'd of had , we 'd of had just as much trouble . |
| 17 | ‘ In any case , I 've had about as much as I can take from your dear friend for today — thank you very much . ’ |
| 18 | San Diego has now had twice as much rain this year as in the whole of a normal year . |
| 19 | We have proved you can have just as much fun living in a shack as on a luxury yacht . ’ |
| 20 | While it 's always nice to know a pony 's background , you can have just as much fun with a Heinz 57 . |
| 21 | This year 's London Music Show at Wembley will have just as many guitars , just as many basses , just as many amps , the same mind-boggling array of talent on stage . |
| 22 | The sizes may be all wrong ; the style may be inappropriate ; and you could have just as many problems with your new colour schemes . |
| 23 | The newer 1:10,000 maps do n't have nearly as much detail . |
| 24 | I mean , you could have as as much as two or three thousand pound owed to ya , but your business will still go under . |
| 25 | You 'll probably find you wo n't have quite as much trouble as I do with them . |
| 26 | The negative effect of such discrimination is illustrated by the practice in adult education establishments which treat pensioners as ‘ half persons ’ ; colleges charge them half price for attending courses , but then insist that a class must have twice as many registrations as required for younger students , before it can go ahead . |
| 27 | You ca n't buy a Fiesta for this kind of money , or a Metro or a Nova and even if you could , you would n't have half as much fun . |
| 28 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 29 | You 'ave just as many as you like . ’ |
| 30 | Some counties like Worcestershire , Shropshire , Lancashire and Somerset , which in 1966 had few or no sites , can now be seen to have just as many sites as the ‘ classic ’ deserted village areas of Warwickshire , Oxfordshire , Northamptonshire and Yorkshire , where the sites were first located . |