Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [det] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 'll wait , we wait there and , but I think she just wants as many people as she possibly can , do you know what I mean ? |
| 2 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
| 3 | I hope the health service 's attitude has changed because anyone suffering from anorexia feels isolated and needs as much support as they can get — from doctors and their family . |
| 4 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 5 | He is obliged to work in great haste , and so achieves nothing worthwhile , but nevertheless there is no one who has as much ability as he . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The beast has as much food as he wants . |
| 7 | The consequent soul-searching often includes as much self-mockery as it does social criticism , and for this reason it is not subversive . |
| 8 | Even so , this assertion raises as many questions as it answers . |
| 9 | This kind of compromise , we confess , raises as many questions as it answers . |
| 10 | Oftentimes , legislation creates as many problems as it solves — limiting flexibility and sometimes even inviting litigation . |
| 11 | Its self-adjusting actions means that hair only absorbs as much lotion as it needs . |