Example sentences of "as [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said breathlessly , trying to inhale as little of the fetid air as possible . |
| 3 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 4 | The preferences could include as many or as few of the candidates as the voter wished . |
| 5 | If you countersign this letter in agreement , we will treat you as such for the purpose of regulated work which may arise in the course of future assignments . |
| 6 | The form of order used in M. 's case does not appear as such in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , but is a standard modernised version of Form No. 85 headed ‘ Order of Committal ( Contemnor Present ) ’ and there is no doubt that it complied with the rules . |
| 7 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 8 | Many feel that the pattern of the sales , given Saatchi 's known admiration for the work of the artists involved suggests that choices are being made at least as much on the basis of the market as on the basis of taste . |
| 9 | ( That figure , though , depends as much on the future price of oil and the level of the dollar as on the price of credit alone . ) |
| 10 | This was as much on the ancient principle of ‘ to the victor , the spoils ’ , as in any fear that the new occupant would carry his or her prejudices into the chair . |
| 11 | It depends as much on the recognition and discernment of each strand as the ability to follow it through . |
| 12 | The S&R approach is almost totally computerised today , and relies as much on the keyboards of Kotch 's Herbie and the crafty arrangements of guitarist Lloyd ‘ Gitsie ’ Willis as it does on their own unerring sense of what constitutes a great rhythm . |
| 13 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 14 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 15 | Here I was all excited that my favourite magazine in the States was going to be published here in England … it would be as avant-garde and as much on the literary cutting edge as its American counterpart , but with an added British flair . |
| 16 | Marjorie , a part-time student on the scheme , warms to this idea especially as the accent is as much on the aesthetic as the functional possibilities . |
| 17 | ‘ Well now , ’ I said slowly , ‘ I think you might fairly say that I 'm as much on the level as most people . |
| 18 | In reading the bundle of documents relating to this appeal , both before , during and since the hearing before me , I have wondered whether attention was not focused almost as much on the father 's wish to obtain an order for costs against the local authority as upon the important question of making for these children the best decision that was available . |
| 19 | The same concern was expressed in the investigations of discounts to retailers ( MMC Report on Discounts to Retailers , 1981 ; Office of Fair Trading , 1985 ) in the UK , though these reports argued against a general prohibition of price discriminatory practices in favour of a case-by-case evaluation , and the focus was as much on the monopsony power of the larger retail chains . |
| 20 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |
| 21 | Tagan 's eyes were as much on the ground as on the land ahead . |
| 22 | As a result of our decisions , we will now spend five times as much on the environmentally sensitive areas and they will cover three times more of the United Kingdom than previously — more than 12 per cent . |
| 23 | From that year onwards , he became progressively more absent from the conduct of daily political affairs , relying as much on the inertia of the system he had created as on his ministers to keep the country running , while he devoted increasing amounts of time to hunting , shooting and fishing . |
| 24 | The actual formation of gangs depends as much on the splits and alliances made by the gang leaders as on the gangs ' internal dynamics . |
| 25 | But I I could n't get over you know , I say , I had a quick look the other at Marks you know , to even do the Christmas serviettes they 're doing a lot more and they said if people are n't buying as much on the clothes side erm so they they 've come down , I mean now I can get erm come over , and I said you 've never looked at Marks I said you never buy clothes , I said have a look in Marks , I said they do some really lovely |
| 26 | It means Gary does n't have to pay as much on the mortgage . |
| 27 | as much on the phone . |
| 28 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 29 | It is worth reminding ourselves , therefore , that Wittgenstein 's criticism of solipsism is intended to be aimed as much at the classic empiricist programme espoused by the classical foundationalist . |
| 30 | Human-rights groups said as much at the time , but General Benny Murdani , then head of the armed forces , claimed that the killings were the result of gang feuds . |