Example sentences of "be as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fact , they 're as much about power over yourself and self-belief as they are about domination of others . |
| 2 | ‘ F— off mate ! they 're as much of a joke as you are . ’ |
| 3 | They you find yourself working in television and you realize you 're as much of a wanker as anyone else . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're as much use as the bishop who could fart Lilliburlero through a keyhole , ’ John said in disgust . |
| 5 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 6 | PAMELA : I must tell your ladyship I scorn your words and am as much married as your ladyship . |
| 7 | Where weapons are concerned , I am as much danger to friend as to foe . ’ |
| 8 | Field evidence ( D. J. Laming , pers. com. ) suggests it may have been as little as 2 or 3 km . |
| 9 | In the four general elections held since independence the turnover of MPs has been as much as 50 per cent . |
| 10 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 11 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 12 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 13 | In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation . |
| 14 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 15 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 16 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 17 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 18 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 19 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 20 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 21 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 22 | There were sixteen riders that year , but there have been as many as twenty-two or sometimes only nine or ten . |
| 23 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 24 | There have been as many ways of doing this as there have been ethnographic studies done . |
| 25 | Exactly how many boxes there were originally is not certain , although it seems there may have been as many as sixty-five , all of which were sent to Rome 's Istituto Centrale del Restauro in 1947 . |
| 26 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 27 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 28 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 29 | To judge by the photographs , on this occasion it had been as many as twenty . |
| 30 | Police believe four men may have taken part in the grudge attack though they have been told there may have been as many as 10 . |