Example sentences of "much as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 2 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 3 | If a problem becomes too complex , or too costly in this context , it is simply declared ‘ off budget ’ , much as the Bush administration declared the $100bn bailout of the savings and loan industry ‘ off budget ’ . |
| 4 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 5 | Childhood thus became a condition to be explored and valued for its own sake , much as the French ‘ philosophes ’ had formerly thought to examine and extol ‘ natural man ’ in his savage state . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 7 | I try to rise above such prejudices , much as the communicators rise above the prejudices of the C2s . |
| 8 | Much as the University of Oxford is understood by reference to a model of its operational system so may we approach the operations of ‘ mind ’ from this point of view . |
| 9 | It somehow ‘ lies beneath ’ them as another ‘ thing ’ , much as the clothes horse lies underneath the clothes . |
| 10 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 11 | It implies that there is a physical boundary to the universe , and that God exists ‘ outside ’ it much as the President of France exists . |
| 12 | Do not hesitate to ask your friends what they would do — they see your home much as the prospective purchaser will see it . |
| 13 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 14 | They also , in turn , completely dominated their homeland , much as the black-and-whites do today . |
| 15 | Much as the ‘ restaurant-program ’ has to be told about conventional behaviour in restaurants , so the ‘ newspaper-reader ’ has to be told about road-accidents , earthquakes , hijackings , and the like . |
| 16 | Erasmus Darwin , grandfather of Charles , describes dodders in verse as ‘ harlot-nymphs ’ which crush their prey in their coils much as the mythological serpents crushed Laocoon and his sons , while Indian myths grant unlimited wealth and the power of invisibility to those who find the roots of dodder . |
| 17 | ‘ One Down ’ treads the fine line between spooky moderne dance and proper fund , much as the young Was ( Not Was ) used to . |
| 18 | The archer fish is here using water as a tool , much as the ant-lion uses sand , to help it capture its prey . |
| 19 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |
| 20 | Much as the CMEA emerged as a diplomatic counterweight to the Marshal Plan and OEEC , the Warsaw Pact arose principally in response to the entry of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO . |
| 21 | They were wonderful horsemen and gloried in their skills , much as the Cossacks did in later times . |
| 22 | If plaque is not removed regularly it builds up , much as the scale does on a kettle . |
| 23 | ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ is religious music in its most contemporary and pure form , from a thirty year old woman who has devoted her soul to its production much as the monks of the middle ages created illuminated manuscripts . |
| 24 | Prison staff felt towards abolition much as the employees of an old established family firm would feel towards merger into an international conglomerate . |
| 25 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 26 | Essentially , any attested forms that can be characterized as ‘ vulgar ’ or ‘ dialectal ’ are rejected , much as the apocryphal books of the Bible are rejected . |
| 27 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 28 | In a sense the strategic visionary practises for the moment of vision , much as the actor practises for the moment of performance . |
| 29 | Normally , release prints are made from a duplicate ( 'dupe' ) negative , much as the pictures in this book are made from dupes of the ( expensive , irreplaceable ) slides borrowed from agencies . |
| 30 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |