Example sentences of "as [det] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er in as much as they maintained the , the labour force . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | We notice the appalling conditions but not as much as we appreciate the energy and vitality of the star . |
| 12 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Policy development was incremental in as much as it adopted the smallest , least disruptive step with the least apparent cost ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 16 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 17 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I like Mrs Tamm 's silence almost as much as I like the impersonality of my room . |
| 20 | I really , I 've never hated people as much as I hate the teachers in this school . |
| 21 | Just as much as I disliked the lean , tanned , grinning face that he presented on the comm screen . |
| 22 | For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties . |
| 23 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 24 | PAN members chose him as their presidential candidate because privately he scorned his party 's old and , as he saw it , timid leadership almost as much as he scorned the PRI . |
| 25 | I subsequently bumped into him ( and most of the others ) in the otiose round of committees during the 1960s which did as much as anything to quench the white heat of the revolution . |
| 26 | They do not , however , deal with a phenomenon that is doing as much as anything to undermine the profitability of televised baseball : the rise of two cable superstations , Ted Turner 's WTBS and the Tribune Group 's WGN . |
| 27 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
| 28 | Beyond the immediate challenge of German U-Boat warfare , France 's resolute defence of Verdun probably did as much as anything to pave the way , emotionally , to the United States ' entry into the war in April 1917 . |
| 29 | In similar fashion the expansion of European sovereignty overseas , which as much as anything marked the onset of the modern age , was attended by substantial accessions of gold . |
| 30 | She believed that as much as she believed the moon was made of green cheese . |