Example sentences of "[det] as [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | hand I thought hallelujah and in the other hand will we make as mak , bigger mess of this as they did in multi=sensory teaching methods in a coordinative approach to learning ? |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 3 | Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water . |
| 4 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 5 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 6 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 7 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 8 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 9 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |
| 10 | Then we realized that we believe in lust as much as we believe in love . |
| 11 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 12 | A Big Mac in a Hong Kong McDonald 's costs half as much as one bought in a big-city McDonald 's in the United States . |
| 13 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 14 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 16 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 17 | Thankfully the scum are still in , as much as it sticks in my gut . |
| 18 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 19 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 20 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 21 | Industry invests in Germany as much as it invests in England , maybe more . |
| 22 | ‘ Okay , we are paying him plenty — not nearly as much as he gets in F1 — but real good . |
| 23 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 24 | It 's not half as much as she charges in her shop . |
| 25 | She might have found it confusing that , in spite of having been married to the Father , it was God the Son who told her to treat Him as her wedded husband and kiss Him as much as she liked in bed , but Margery took things like that in her stride . |
| 26 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 27 | In street clothes she looked very flash , not at all as she did in her neat black and white servant 's uniform . |
| 28 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 29 | same as you have in the |
| 30 | She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’ |