Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun] as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if Venus has always had as little water as it seems to have today then it may never have been able to achieve such high surface temperatures . |
| 2 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 3 | Its self-adjusting actions means that hair only absorbs as much lotion as it needs . |
| 4 | A country can produce these days as much money as it wants . |
| 5 | Japan does not have the facilities to produce as much plutonium as it needs and plans to import 153 tonnes of the highly volatile material from Britain and France between 1992 and 2000 . |
| 6 | The ultimate aim is to generate as much electricity as it consumes at all its sites , including shops , across the UK. * British Telecom is testing a pair of wind-powered telephone boxes , with electricity generated by a small windmill attached to the top of the box being used to charge a battery that can power a light in the box . |
| 7 | The consequent soul-searching often includes as much self-mockery as it does social criticism , and for this reason it is not subversive . |
| 8 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 9 | Even Robert Bakker , a paleontologist now at Colorado University and one of the most original and interesting of dinosaur academics , has not , I suggest , given the subject of dinosaur size as much attention as it deserves , and consequently many of his arguments concerning metabolism , which we will examine in the next chapter , remain fatally flawed . |
| 10 | It 's far from intuitive , and galling to waste as much time as it takes . |
| 11 | If this remains true today , it is probably because the House does not have the same pressures placed on its time as the Court of Appeal and is able to devote as much time as it wishes to oral argument . |
| 12 | Alternatively , if the company has an unfettered right to spray as many sparks as it likes , there will be plenty of damage to fields . |
| 13 | Even so , this assertion raises as many questions as it answers . |
| 14 | This kind of compromise , we confess , raises as many questions as it answers . |
| 15 | It raises almost as many questions as it provides answers , but it has not been challenged before us . |
| 16 | However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate . |
| 17 | Many pundits publicly opine that Windows would never have sold as many copies as it has without the massive publicity campaign that Microsoft put behind it . |
| 18 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 19 | ‘ As many times as it takes for you to realise that shutting him out will only keep him in , ’ he insisted firmly . |
| 20 | Materialism brings in its wake as many problems as it does blessings . |
| 21 | Oftentimes , legislation creates as many problems as it solves — limiting flexibility and sometimes even inviting litigation . |
| 22 | 1.3 Problems caused by the judgment in Faccenda Chicken The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Faccenda case has been perceived to cause as many problems as it has solved . |
| 23 | It did not touch as many people as it does today and it would have been difficult to see precisely what kind of partisan gloss could have been put on the matter . |
| 24 | 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 . |