Example sentences of "[adv] as much as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will set ourselves a budget each year and do only as much as we can afford . |
| 2 | It is a spiritual principle that we will receive only as much as we are prepared to use . |
| 3 | Each time you feed , remember : only as much as they will eat in five minutes . . |
| 4 | You can decide to be imperfect , to do things in your own time , to please yourself , not to be strong and to try only as much as you like . |
| 5 | After 24 hours , fill cavities with a two-part repair material , mixing only as much as you can use in about five minutes ( less in hot weather ) |
| 6 | Get in contact with your lender as soon as you realise that you may have a problem meeting the repayments and continue to pay monthly as much as you can afford . |
| 7 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 8 | But part of that problem is that I do n't think the course tutors do perhaps as much as they might , I mean they do nowhere near as much as Shirley does |
| 9 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 10 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 11 | In the eight in which they are second ( Edinburgh Central and South , Angus East , Banff , Fife NE , Renfrew West , Strathkelvin , and Tweeddale ) , their percentages are down as much as they are up . |
| 12 | What I want to do , I want to cut the shopping down as much as I possibly can . |
| 13 | four , I cut that down as much as I could so |
| 14 | We need to break stuff down as much as you can . |
| 15 | You can make that and put down as much as you want and then you roll the dice . |
| 16 | Clara dreaded the vacations , and tried to whittle them down as much as she could , by semi-obligatory study courses , and quasi-essential trips to the continent to learn the languages she was studying , but despite these nibblings and thefts , she still found herself obliged to spend a great deal of time each year in Hartley Road . |
| 17 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Get through as much as you can this afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ A bit , but not as much as they might be considering the rain we 've had , ’ Charlie answered . |
| 21 | We notice the appalling conditions but not as much as we appreciate the energy and vitality of the star . |
| 22 | Announcing the results of the extended talks , Baker said that " clear gains " had been achieved in arms control and trade issues , but achievements on human rights were " not as much as we would have hoped for " . |
| 23 | Not as much as we 'd like , you understand . |
| 24 | Thorny 's not strong enough , not as much as she would like , though she has very strong arms compared to most women . |
| 25 | ‘ Not as much as I would like . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Probably not as much as I did when I was a kid ; the travelling part is hard . |
| 27 | Not as much as I would like to be , however , as the night class I joined in September 1991 did not have enough support to run again at the beginning of this year . |
| 28 | But then again , maybe not as much as I think … |
| 29 | Sharp Samson are paying me more , not as much as I was offered by the others , but I 'm satisfied because more money does n't mean I 'll be faster or happier . |
| 30 | I 've been using , but not as much as I was , say , two or three years ago . |