Example sentences of "[noun] every bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan found understanding of the other side every bit as hard . |
| 2 | Organised by Ernest Armstrong , former House of Commons deputy speaker and Stanley 's pre-war defence minister , it 's for tea ladies , kit washers and supporters every bit as much as players . |
| 3 | It was a point made to me with some vehemence by Mahmoud Labadi , who was then official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon , a bespectacled figure every bit as urbane and cynical as his Israeli counterpart . |
| 4 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 5 | Thus we shall be plunged into a show trial of the public morality every bit as much a barometer of our times as the Lady Chatterley case back in the Sixties . |
| 6 | There were several shepherds out there carrying loads of hay on pitchforks , but her father was working with them , his wrappings of leather and tweed and sacking indistinguishable from theirs , his voice as thick and soft , his movements every bit as practised . |
| 7 | As a result , vast numbers of tiny toads complete their metamorphosis and leave the pond within the same ten minute period at night — a scene every bit as dramatic as the mass migrations of wildebeest in the Serengeti , but in miniature . |
| 8 | For if the station is seen as cathedral or chapel , it can also be seen to possess in its heyday a Bible every bit as imposing and sometimes even as impenetrable as the Authorized Version ( Bradshaw ) , incense ( steam ) , and liturgical chanting ( ‘ The train now standing at platform 3 is … ’ , |
| 9 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 10 | Things every bit as bad happen there , too . |
| 11 | Nescafé decaffeinated tastes every bit as good as the Nescafé you know and love . |
| 12 | Sexist concept , lousy gameplay and some of the worst digitisation I 've ever seen make this puerile excuse for a game every bit as bad as that offensive little rag The Daily Sport . |
| 13 | The EGA graphics are very well done and make the game every bit as enjoyable as the board game . |
| 14 | The EGA graphics are very well done and make the game every bit as enjoyable as the board game . |
| 15 | The chefs of Brighton & Hove 's excellent restaurants can whip up a piquant sauce every bit as good as George IV 's French cooks . |
| 16 | As a mere male , what can I do but worship , you 're all woman every bit of you , the funny silly things you say and do . |
| 17 | And had he not been perfectly willing , of course , to hit a woman every bit as hard as he would have struck a man . |
| 18 | The submission states : ‘ Routine spillages and other mishaps pose an insidious threat to our seas and coasts every bit as serious as those arising from dramatic events like the wreck of the Braer . ’ |
| 19 | But if the idea of some indefinable menace frees your imagination , then there is nothing to stop you producing a suspense novel every bit as twanging with tension as a story in which someone is left hanging by one finger over a depthless gorge . |
| 20 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 21 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 22 | Cassie 's face whitened and she said , in a voice every bit as icy and disdainful as his own : |
| 23 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |
| 24 | In a speech to the European Parliament on March 21 he declared : " It is in the West 's own interest to seek the integration of eastern and central Europe into the family of European democracy because otherwise it risks creating a zone of hopelessness , instability and chaos , which would threaten western Europe every bit as much as the Warsaw Pact tank divisions of old . " |
| 25 | The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost . |
| 26 | But it is probably good advice to plan this sort of book every bit as much as the writer of the puzzle detective story will have had to work out the plot and most of what is necessary to sustain that plot . |
| 27 | Given the buoyancy of Major 's chart , he should be able to gather the support he needs for tomorrow 's crucial debate for he is a tactical Capricorn-rising every bit as much as he is a stand-by-my-principles Aries . |
| 28 | Paige subsided , aware of a grim satisfaction in knowing he felt the strain every bit as much as she did . |
| 29 | Terry Nation had succeeded in carving a foreign world every bit as believable as Lucarotti 's carefully researched account of life in twelfth-century Cathay . |
| 30 | Or no , do n't tell me , ’ she denied with a scowl every bit as horrible as her son 's , ‘ he 's adopted another blasted lame duck and has got him living here with him ! |