Example sentences of "[adv] as [det] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 32 | The possibility that future generations will read our textbooks with about as much comprehension as we might scan a Renaissance text on the cabbala is rather unnerving . |
| 33 | Protection , too , thanks to the many thin cracks and cracklets seaming the rock , is plentiful and both pitches will obligingly swallow just about as much gear as you can carry . |
| 34 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
| 35 | But there is still a great lack of clarity and we are not prepared to pretend that we know the answer , thereby running the risk of causing at least as much damage as we do good . |
| 36 | Secondly , the programme posed at least as many questions as it answered . |
| 37 | I make the distinction of ‘ pub drinkers ’ because home drinkers often pour much larger so-called singles and therefore consume at least as many calories as they think they are taking in — frequently even more . |
| 38 | Intel finally conceded that its stampede of product announcements confounded at least as many people as it enlightened . |
| 39 | In fact , the Old Boys should have won by an even bigger margin as they missed almost as many chances as they converted . |
| 40 | It raises almost as many questions as it provides answers , but it has not been challenged before us . |
| 41 | Evidence began to mount that much of the social welfare paternalism of the post-war period had created almost as many problems as it solved . |
| 42 | This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people . |
| 43 | The Greens were present in over 500 wards , compared with 206 wards in 1988 , and the Liberal Democrats were able to field almost as many candidates as they had done previously . |
| 44 | And besides , although the owner of the Rose Bowl presumably realised that she was receiving almost as many flowers as she sold , Folly was fairly sure that Lisa knew nothing of her relationship with Luke Hunter . |
| 45 | When I first saw her again I was surprised to find that I was now a little taller than Daphne but that she had lost almost as much weight as I had . |
| 46 | Each whirring stroke of the razor-edged steel would have sliced clean through a human limb with almost as much ease as it cut the air . |
| 47 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 48 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 49 | We need twice as much money as we 're getting at the moment . |
| 50 | He spoiled twice as much fruit as he ate by crushing the berries beneath his clumsy feet in a mad rush from bush to bush . |
| 51 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 52 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 53 | In our Western diet we eat more than twice as much protein as we need , and of an unhealthy type . |
| 54 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 55 | It will allow doctors to perform twice as many operations as they have done in the past . |
| 56 | Chatto says that all of its originals sold at least twice as many copies as they would have done in hardback . |
| 57 | ‘ Those whoresons have twice as many archers as us . |
| 58 | Cleaning up contamination is wonderfully labour-intensive : some old military sites being cleaned up by the Department of Energy now employ twice as many people as they did at their peak of production . |
| 59 | You ca n't blame , you ca n't blame people for hanging about doing nothing if they 've twice as many staff as they should 've , and there paying them , I mean , that , that 's an administrative error , not a well it seems to be very rift in local government that there over staffed |
| 60 | They go through at least twice as many levels as they would in faster , more effective organizations . |