Example sentences of "[verb] as much as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 2 | ‘ Cry as much as you like , Miss Cathy , ’ he said . |
| 3 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to challenge and excite as much as I can but I 'm not going to create a work for the Scottish Ballet that is going to drive their audience away . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How come , ’ he asks , ‘ that human beings whose contacts with the world are brief and personal and limited are nevertheless able to know as much as they do ? ’ |
| 6 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |
| 7 | It was Colborne as much as anyone who took Diana under his wing in the early days . |
| 8 | Also it 's kind of er even if you er sort of different people do n't , I mean a lot of people do n't discuss as much as we do . |
| 9 | I find it very difficult when you have a journalist round , and you will perhaps cooperate as much as you can with an interview , and then sometimes they 'll go and dip their pen in acid and write really horrid things . |
| 10 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 13 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 14 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |
| 15 | ‘ We shall be contributing as much as we possibly can to the home , which is actually in need of 28 new beds , ’ she added . |
| 16 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Consequently , the figures do not appear to have risen as much as they actually have . |
| 19 | Vitor pulled back , and she noticed that he was trembling as much as she . |
| 20 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 21 | If development ceases , the pupils will not benefit as much as they should at a time in their education which will never be repeated and one which therefore could never be made up . |
| 22 | Callers phoning a chatline need have no fear of rebuff ; the people they speak to want to talk as much as they do . |
| 23 | Her rapid breathing was proof that her emotions were stirred as much as his , but she shrank away , flattening her body against the cold wood rather than succumb to his persuasion . |
| 24 | Olympic four-hundred metre hurdler Kriss Akabusi told the youngsters they can achieve as much as he has , if only they give their best . |
| 25 | The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information . |
| 26 | The Authority are pushing as much as they can on the scheme and there 's been no response to yesterday . |
| 27 | It is n't eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody . |
| 28 | little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months |
| 29 | ‘ With a strong market leadership position , ’ said Lockett , ‘ we must do as much as we can to maintain it and client care is the most important element of our success . |
| 30 | ‘ Basically we will do as much as we can to help our customers , especially in such difficult circumstances . ’ |