Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 2 | Her hands shook so much that she smudged the rouge and had to start again . |
| 3 | If he lifted a piece of chalk or opened a book , it usually tired him out so much that he spent the rest of the lesson dozing . |
| 4 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 5 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 6 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 7 | Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 . |
| 8 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 9 | Thus ( i ) neither may precede the other , or ( ii ) they are not such that one necessitates the other while the other merely dependently necessitates it , or ( iii ) they may lack both features . |
| 10 | In the first place , many of the leading figures in the National government feared the rise of communism in Germany , Italy and Spain rather more than they feared the rise of European fascism . |
| 11 | He had said the day before that if he won the Canadian Open , ‘ Great , but if I do n't , no big deal . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid we 're just going to have to weather this for a while , and gloat twice as much when we turn the tables . |
| 13 | Marx recognised as much when he interposed the " period of manufacture " between that of guild manufacture and that of " machino-facture " : " Inasmuch as handicraft skill formed the basis of manufacture and inasmuch as the integral mechanism which was at work in manufacture had no objective skeleton existing apart from the workers themselves , capital had continually to wrestle with the subordination of the workers . " |
| 14 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 15 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 16 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 17 | Until the United States sanctions on Nicaragua and its backing for the Contra war come to an end , these limitations on living standards will continue to affect prisoners as much as they affect the rest of the population . |
| 18 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 19 | Er in as much as they maintained the , the labour force . |
| 20 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 21 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 22 | We notice the appalling conditions but not as much as we appreciate the energy and vitality of the star . |
| 23 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Policy development was incremental in as much as it adopted the smallest , least disruptive step with the least apparent cost ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 27 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 28 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 29 | So , while doubt is a state of suspension between faith and unbelief , unbelief is a state of mind which is closed against God , an attitude of heart which disobeys God as much as it disbelieves the truth . |
| 30 | I like Mrs Tamm 's silence almost as much as I like the impersonality of my room . |