Example sentences of "[be] every bit " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | These units may be every bit as difficult to define and handle , conceptually at least , as the fleas themselves . |
3 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
4 | Now leading the Elf army , Tyrion proved to be every bit as skillful a general as he was a warrior . |
5 | In terms of predicting and controlling the social environment , high technology can quite clearly be every bit as important as brute force . |
6 | Running on a 33MHz 486 under SCO Unix , Windows appeared to be every bit as fast as a copy running in its native DOS environment . |
7 | Certainly in broadsheet media like the Daily Telegraph , a 35cm × 4 col space is likely to be every bit as good as the far more expensive full page , not least because it is set into news matter , rather than merely facing it . |
8 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
9 | ‘ Pancho ’ will be every bit as tough when he takes his place on the bench beside player-manager Frank Stapleton — even if it means shouting ‘ come in number nine ’ to the boss . |
10 | She must be every bit as cruel as they say , my lady . ’ |
11 | Care should , however , be taken to avoid any glaring inconsistency between the covenants accepted by the partners and those imposed on their employees : and in many cases , looked at objectively , the value to a firm ( and to its potential competitors ) of a senior employee ( even one who is not legally qualified ) can be every bit as great as that of any of its partners . |
12 | ‘ We 'll be every bit as fired up as if we were playing Spain . ’ |
13 | If you bend and twist to try to accommodate him , you will end up like a pretzel , and your behaviour will be every bit as neurotic as his . |