Example sentences of "as that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm as well as that we get a little bit of sulphur dioxide and we get oxides of nitrogen , which are pretty nasty , those are the one 's they et around Los Angeles , and the big smoggy cities . |
| 2 | There is a hint of selectivity here , a suspicion that Cosslett 's analysis may be as unrepresentative as that we have come to accept . |
| 3 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 4 | If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is . |
| 5 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 6 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 7 | Still it is now part of the larger narrative , and read as that it suggests a period of peaceful coexistence before their final parting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For example , there was an oil smear on his jacket of the same type as that he used in his car . |
| 10 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 11 | It 's not as bad as that I know but you get my meaning . |
| 12 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 13 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 14 | I do not want to suggest that all this work fell into such simple methodological traps as that I have described above , though I suspect that much of it did . |
| 15 | If we play as well as that I do n't see why we ca n't finish them off . |