Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [vb base] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers enjoy protective and caring episodes in dealing with their children as much as they enjoy seeing them grow more independent Such episodes are a simple arid direct affirmation of the maternal role . |
| 2 | ‘ I have chosen seven men whose personalities will , I hope , interest other people as much as they have intrigued me . |
| 3 | Er actually , er much as I hate to admit it , I think you could be right . |
| 4 | But let's say there 's 10 times — no , 20 times — as much as you 've sent me : that would still only be 10 pages , and my Bible ( Old Testament only ) is 833 pages long . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |
| 6 | Ensuring that you 'll always enjoy seeing the car as much as you enjoy driving it . |
| 7 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 8 | That they would pick up things as quickly or as quick as you have picked them up . |
| 9 | The precision of Hilaire 's placing was constantly astonishing and in an air-borne rond de jambe Guillem 's long lean line was as breathtaking as I 've seen it . |
| 10 | Plenty of folk as good as us have done it . ’ |
| 11 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 12 | Is God really as good as you have trusted him to be ? |
| 13 | they 're not really worried , as long as they 've got it . |
| 14 | As long as I 've known you , you always give the subject of clothes the deep respect it deserves ! |
| 15 | Oh er as long as I 've got it Friday morning , but I lo , I need to know by |
| 16 | The MacroVariable names can be changed as long as you remember to change them in the Type statements at the end of the macro . |
| 17 | If you 've given thought to them and excluded them , that 's fine as long as you 've made it clear . |
| 18 | By Christ , Dan , how you 've lasted as long as you have amazes me on its own ! ’ |
| 19 | You can borrow it as long as you promise to bring it back . |
| 20 | Walking and swimming are activities which can be as gentle or as vigorous as you care to make them . |
| 21 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 22 | Choice of filtration method for a large cichlid tank is a matter of personal preference and can be as cheap or as expensive as we wish to make it . |
| 23 | That it 's expensive ; it 's as expensive as you want to make it . |
| 24 | Is there any hint that you might be forced to make an inver an inversion o in that sense that er you would be able so that you would have to make statements like that as you 've made you you 've turned them that the employer 's statement on it 's head ? |
| 25 | Of course if determination is as open-ended as I have argued it is , absent any criterion to distinguish the genuine from the false determination , then no positive law could be unjust because every positive law , whatever its content , being a determination of the natural law , will necessarily be consistent with the natural law and therefore valid . |
| 26 | He said it 's to be as realistic as we dare to make it . |