Example sentences of "as [det] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They would n't want someone as little as her .
2 The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have .
3 I might try and iron as little as they possible can
4 Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication .
5 GUIL : Exactly , it 's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can .
6 but see as little as we do :
7 Adopters may receive little warning of an imminent placement , and may have as little as one to two days notice .
8 It mattered as little as it seemed to matter to Lucy that they would have — yet another — three weeks apart .
9 you 'll have to give it as little as it you know
10 As little as she did to him , Iago thought , for now that he was to have half his money back , that he had staked on her ennoblement and his grandchild 's inheritance , he scarcely noticed her .
11 I fancy it comes from over reading , so I do as little as I can .
12 I wish I could love her as little as I like her .
13 ‘ I do n't have a car so I take as little as I can get away with , ’ she says .
14 But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing .
15 Erm , because I 'm , because I do n't like dupl , I duplicate as little as I can , you know .
16 And when the press come bothering , just tell them as little as you need .
17 ‘ Then be careful to say as little as you can .
18 Write as many or as little as you can , but be honest ! ’
19 ‘ You may eat as little as you please . ’
20 Coy tried to pick up as little as he could , tactful as a secretary .
21 ‘ Charlie pays as little as he can get away with .
22 Though it hardly arose , for the boy was engrossed in his Welsh affairs , and came south as little as he could .
23 How often have those lines been my prayer : ‘ Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed .
24 ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications .
25 As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background .
26 Note that the top level index may have as few as one .
27 not as much but it sort of come out like that and then you sit your flowers it makes that a shell if you know what I mean ?
28 Er er and there are i implications for you in as much that my simplistic idea would be that everything in terms of a subject would be on a separate sheet so that
29 Everybody said as much when they went cheerfully back to the battle of Tewkesbury or Bosworth Field .
30 Well , you do n't mind half as much when they 're miles away .
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