Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 2 | I was an articulate , busy girl , brave as anything on the platform , but timid about love . |
| 3 | In time of war the proportion was probably as high as one in eight . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 5 | Although in some hospitals it 's as high as one in five . |
| 6 | The result of an unequal balance of power is where I went back to , is the precipitating factor in marital violence which is , you know , some surveys put as high as one in four families , is in fact when the woman becomes uppity . |
| 7 | Universities and polytechnics , after all , are as much interested as anybody in what a student can do ; and especially in what he understands . |
| 8 | Well his name was , a very brilliant man , well w he 'd be nearly as old as me of course . |
| 9 | Rioja 's fortunes were high in the late Seventies and early Eighties , when flavoursome , oaky , mature wines were three times as old as anything from France and only half the price . |
| 10 | As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background . |
| 11 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 12 | I AM as delighted as anyone with this Tory victory . |
| 13 | In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper . |
| 14 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 15 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 16 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 17 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 18 | And as much as none of us would like that , I feel it may be , you know , it may , it will be something that will be over very quickly , er the only worry of course is that so many people will get hurt , but if that 's the way to end it all then perhaps that 's what should be done . |
| 19 | Both Hitch and Morton had worked for Plummer for more than ten years and he trusted them as much as anyone in his organisation . |
| 20 | The trouble was that being a good club player , even being an outstanding club player , does not of itself make you a worthy international , and it was Waldron 's failure to recognise this of his own Neath players that contributed as much as anything to his downfall . |
| 21 | The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information . |
| 22 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 23 | There are now over forty Compacts in operation , which are succeeding — as much as anything by involving parents in the deal . |
| 24 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 25 | If capitalism is on a headlong cascade into a new world , socialism , he says , ‘ collided with the future ’ , let down as much as anything by its failure to understand information and organization , its doomed attempt to apply the modes of engineering to thought , and its obsession with hardware rather than software . |
| 26 | Curiously enough , it was a sad event which did as much as anything in 1992 to help me put my own worries into perspective . |
| 27 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 28 | In any case , why should someone with short hair styled by the most recently qualified , pay as much as someone with long hair looked after by their most expert ? |
| 29 | This is not quite as straightforward as it at first appears . |
| 30 | Dr Garfield himself has been as cautious as anyone in making claims for his technique , not least because it does not allow one to predict which specialities the Nobel authorities will single out for acclamation . |