Example sentences of "as [det] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charities can reclaim pay repayment of basic rates of tax on gifts of as little as even two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 2 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 3 | Its business was to sell as much as fast as it could . |
| 4 | Her defences had crumbled under the onslaught of tears ; now she lay in his arms , naked emotionally as much as physically . |
| 5 | And er the sun can be as much as nearly twenty minutes slow or fast . |
| 6 | These processes are viewed as essentially positive , but as possessing intrinsic dangers , in as much as either specificity or abstraction may develop in such a manner as to be no longer assimilable by the subject through sublation , in which case they become both alien and oppressive . |
| 7 | It , it achieves just as much as softly doing hop skip and a jump . |
| 8 | yes , we tend not to use P C Us as much as well a few years ago . |
| 9 | Yet this begs the question of how policy initiatives should be assessed , given that they regularly embody flawed conceptualisations of urban crisis , were created in contentious circumstances and reflect spatial realisations of a political agenda as much as objectively circumscribed social problems . |
| 10 | Ryan Giggs has achieved nearly as much as Best at the same age . |
| 11 | In The Groove , who runs at Phoenix Park on Saturday , has not achieved nearly as much as Dead Certain , but Elsworth rates them on a par . |
| 12 | It 's important to do this , because the water chemistry of your dealer 's tank is n't necessarily the same as your own , and sudden changes in pH can stress fish just as much as widely differing temperatures . |
| 13 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 14 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 15 | The action jarred her foot and she winced , but it did n't seem to ache as much as yesterday . |
| 16 | Some belemnites are as much as twice that length . |
| 17 | That includes the boundaries separating genres , texts , ideological discourses , audiences and readerships as much as apparently rock-solid barriers like the Berlin Wall , breached in part , as many commentators have pointed out , thanks to ‘ contamination ’ from Western media and the lifting of communications embargoes under glasnost . |
| 18 | But as much as Pauly the character reflects LA youth 's sun-dried degeneracy , the man himself is a driven individual . |
| 19 | The next Labour Government 's policies in these areas will affect Northern Ireland just as much as anywhere else in the UK . |
| 20 | This variability applies in the arena of stress as much as anywhere else . |
| 21 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 22 | Naturally they saw less of each other , and Robyn was aware that this did not cause her to repine as much as perhaps it should have done . |
| 23 | Pakistan ignored the chance of a new ball , and Akram was still making the old one deviate as much as perhaps 15 degrees . |
| 24 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 25 | We prize our independence as much as ever , although we accept that in the run-up to the twenty-first century independence can only be relative : international interdependence is a Line qua non . |
| 26 | The whole episode was clearly a great embarrassment to my father , and by the time of that conversation in Lord Darlington 's study , he had long since returned to busying himself as much as ever . |
| 27 | Hence , the careers open to the talents were being sought , as much as ever , in the professions , the civil service or finance and not in manufacturing industry . |
| 28 | But hard-core addicts , who account for four-fifths of all consumption , are taking as much as ever . |
| 29 | Inside , she was bleeding from the wounds inflicted by John Leinster , for she loved him as much as ever . |
| 30 | Ace is thinking and feeling as much as ever , but she 's controlling the output of signals . |