Example sentences of "[vb infin] as much as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a period when only McQueen and Dustin were getting their per diem allowance , something they did not need as much as the rest of the cast and crew . |
| 2 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 3 | Seven years old … second time round the clock … charecterful … but it 'll fetch as much as a new one would in Britain . |
| 4 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 5 | ‘ Any suggestion that the one-day internationals do n't matter as much as the Tests is not right and is certainly at variance with the way the players view it . ’ |
| 6 | It covers quickly and does n't splash as much as the sponge varieties . |
| 7 | The stabled horse can not touch as much as the paddocked horse , nor can it scratch or have any reassuring contact with a companion . |
| 8 | Cooking , washing up , bathing , washing and drying clothes and so on can create as much as a further 10 to 12 litres of water a day , and every litre of fuel burnt in a flueless oil or paraffin heater gives off roughly another litre of water vapour . |
| 9 | With the possibility that keeping a family warm and fed might cost as much as a hundred and fifty pounds extra next year the advice from the experts is to insulate your home … if you can afford to that is . |
| 10 | These served the classes that could afford to buy plots or construct a family vault , which might cost as much as the total annual salaries of the domestic staff of a Victorian household . |
| 11 | So the cycle will cost as much as the passenger ! |
| 12 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 13 | Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather . |
| 14 | The other is enclosed by a chimney of mud and stones that may stand as much as a foot tall . |
| 15 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |
| 16 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |
| 17 | This is the prelude to disaster in which soil , crops , and ( particularly ) livestock can suffer as much as the farmer . |
| 18 | And there it did n't materialize as much as an advice service as a way of working together to solve the child 's problems . |
| 19 | ‘ Obviously he does n't train as much as the other players because we want to ensure he is in good condition for matches . |