Example sentences of "they [verb] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like , when you were a young boy growing up would the kelp workers could they make as much money . |
| 2 | The trouble with all these concessions and compromises is that they raise as many problems as they solve . |
| 3 | Since comparative studies from Africa seem to reinforce the evidence from all over that children pass through much the same stages , we can confidently predict that they mean as little to the children of Kenya or Zambia . |
| 4 | They want as many rabbits as possible for the minimum amount of effort and time commitment . |
| 5 | No you do n't have to but they want as many done as possible . |
| 6 | Well I think that they want people from they want the whole peasant base , they want represe they want as many people from the peasant base as is possible . |
| 7 | As an apologia for New York 's fiscal tangle , though , they say as much about the nomenklatura as about the inevitability of $10 billion budgets . |
| 8 | They say as many as twelve vehicles could have been blown over , and for the rest , its a slow journey home . |
| 9 | ‘ When they are necessary I try to arrange that they cause as little disturbance as possible . ’ |
| 10 | They plot , they devise stratagems , they cause as much confusion as they can . |
| 11 | Most C-Ds retail at around thirteen pounds , although they cost as little as fifty pence to make . |
| 12 | In fact , the improvement in their educational abilities is as great as with children of average intelligence , and they react as much , if not more , to the same forms of educational training . |
| 13 | Observing a heated argument among the players over a game of cards , Chapman thought that if they put as much consideration and earnestness into their football , their game could only improve . |
| 14 | They put as many blocks in my path as they could . |
| 15 | There were so many of them about , and it seemed to him they caused as much trouble to a policeman as burglars . |
| 16 | little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months |
| 17 | Oh , why have n't they done as many as last year ? |
| 18 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 19 | I believe that they lie as much , or even more , in the form in the ground plan which the buildings and the natural objects together make . |
| 20 | Often they lend as little as ten piasters knowing they will be able to take the borrower 's scrap of land , his house — and his wife and daughters too probably — when he fails to repay . " |
| 21 | Like the scheme 's two part-time tutors ( who are absent from the meeting because they 're attending courses in Sign Language and Counselling ) they train as much by ‘ doing and reflecting ’ as by attending specific courses . |
| 22 | They spent as much time decorating the table as they did making the food . |
| 23 | In fact , of one refers to the practices of Muhammad , which are the main Muslim Texts , one sees that they deal as much with politics , government , the struggle against tyrants , as with prayers . " |
| 24 | ‘ And are they spending as much on promotion as Jefferson would have us believe ? ’ pressed Toby . |
| 25 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 26 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 27 | They apply as much to the testing of new drugs by the pharmaceutical companies as to that of more mundane products . |
| 28 | They brew as much beer in a day , as Morland produce at Abingdon in a week . |
| 29 | They did as much if not more for the internal cohesion of antislavery as in impressing the outside world . |
| 30 | Even if they do as much as glance directly at an advertisement , they rarely stop and read it carefully , making notes as they do so . |