Example sentences of "[noun pl] every bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Things every bit as bad happen there , too . |
| 5 | Nescafé decaffeinated tastes every bit as good as the Nescafé you know and love . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them . |
| 9 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 10 | So there are plenty of ways of disposing of little amounts Every bit you dispose of from your capital every hundred pounds saves forty pounds in tax , if you 're at that sort of level . |