Example sentences of "[be] every bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are every bit as fattening as the calories in solid food , and must be taken into account in reaching your daily total calorie intake . |
| 2 | The skills required to fulfil that promise are every bit as complex as those needed to nurture grapes , not least because the coffee bush requires special conditions in which to thrive . |
| 3 | What is not always obvious is that the bridle line itself , and its connections to the kite frame , are every bit as important as the kiteline ends over which far greater fuss is made . |
| 4 | In my experience , men 's lives are every bit as ‘ ruled ’ by love as women 's . |
| 5 | Only the most illustrious names hold out the lure of considerable profit ; but many thousands of unknown men and women have left behind them a legacy of written material that will never be illicitly copied and imitated yet will yield a rich store of history , and throw light on their place and period , life and labours , which are every bit as important , in the ultimate scale of things , as the antics and accomplishments of those who contrived to hit the headlines . |
| 6 | However , potentially the players are every bit as good as are their opponents . |
| 7 | Steam galas are fun , but the more mundane tasks of winter maintenance are every bit as important . |
| 8 | It pays to concentrate not just on big names , but on the ‘ artists ’ , who are every bit as important to the overall texture of art ; on Lee Bontecou who was one of Leo Castelli 's most visible artists in the early 1960s — the only woman whom he represented — and who was a major inspiration to Eva Hesse ; on H. C. Westerman whom Donald Judd once described as ‘ one of the most interesting artists around ’ . |
| 9 | Though less heavily armoured than the human knights they use their greater speed well and are every bit as deadly in combat , catching their foes off guard with quick flanking moves and pursuits . |
| 10 | Gold addicts are , by nature , an optimistic bunch , unworried by the stomach-turning ups and downs of the gold price in recent years ; and gold-prospectors , hoping to catch that rogue speck in millions of gallons of silt-filled water , are every bit as resilient . |
| 11 | The Guinness book of theatre quotes , which costs £7.99 , is compiled by Michele Brown who readily agrees that actors and authors are every bit as cruel about actors as critics , viz Richard Burton talking about his wife Liz Taylor : ‘ She has a double chin , her legs are too short and she has a pot belly . ’ |
| 12 | Praise indeed , and you 'll find the traditional inns that we 've selected for your accommodation are every bit as good as the food they serve ! |
| 13 | But Loriod 's glinting technique and scrupulous attention to detail are every bit as impressive — pity about the hissy , airless recording . |
| 14 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 15 | He identifies these as ‘ material divisions which are every bit as ‘ real ’ and every bit as pertinent as those which arise out of the relations between classes ' ( Saunders , 1984 : 207 ) . |
| 16 | I suggest that , in spite of appearances , these processes are every bit as carefully organised and crafted as those involved in setting up ‘ group work ’ , and I propose some starting points for further discussion and development . |
| 17 | Feminism has insisted that such issues are deeply political ; representations , through imagery of women , are formed , understood , accepted , altered and compromised through a series of processes that are every bit as ideologically based as the electoral system . |
| 18 | ‘ And you , my dear , are every bit as attractive as Stephen described . ’ |
| 19 | Unless you have to use PostScript for typographic reasons , you 'll find that TrueType fonts are every bit as good as PostScript ones and print much faster than PostScript , especially to a LaserJet . |
| 20 | Just as the intervals between the notes in music are every bit as important as the notes themselves , so the bedding planes are as important as the beds . |
| 21 | Men are every bit as bitchy to each other . |
| 22 | But whereas Paul Dukas seems to have seen the error of his ways when he edited a second volume ( vol.1 ) , d'Indy persisted with his ‘ improvements ’ : his Dardanus ( vol.10 ) and Zaïs ( vol.16 ) are every bit as misleading as Hippolyte . |
| 23 | Just one thing , adds the paper 's columnist , could hold him back : Tony 's view that his wife and children are every bit as important as his politics . |
| 24 | The copyholder , often equated with the poor peasant farmer , might well have been every bit as much a rentier as the lord of the manor , especially if a gentleman or wealthy townsman , earning thereby the disapprobation of Robert Crowley : |
| 25 | The Walsingham was in Piccadilly , on the site now occupied by the Ritz ; from the Colonel 's description of the panelling of inlaid woods , the white pillars and cornices touched with gold , the curtains of deep crimson velvet , the ceiling of little cupids floating in roseate clouds , the dining-room must have been every bit as ravishing as the pink and white Louis XVI restaurant which succeeded it and which , under the direction of César Ritz , became synonymous with all that was elegant , rich and glamorous in the early years of this century . |
| 26 | Before October the anarchists had stood closest to the Bolsheviks , and had been every bit as radical in their determination to overthrow the Provisional Government . |
| 27 | When he was small , David Miller had been every bit as spirited and mischievous as any boy , but he had been bullied into believing otherwise . |
| 28 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 29 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 30 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |