Example sentences of "much as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think of a traitor amongst their own people lacerated him as much as the thought of Iain or Donald lying in some cell . |
| 2 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 3 | There has been a noticeable shift of working class support from the SPD to the far-right Republicans — not as much as the losses from the Christian Democrats , but enough to worry party managers . |
| 4 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 5 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 6 | On issues like unilateralism or the economy , papers like the Guardian and Telegraph did seem to influence their readers as much as the tabloids , but not on the question of voting choice . |
| 7 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 8 | His yielding to the edicts of Number 10 on financial policy eventually enabled the main thrust of Thatcherite innovation to show itself here , even though it was often the moderation as much as the radicalism which was to impress observers . |
| 9 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 10 | The altered structure of society — the small family size , the small dwelling unit , the substitution of mechanical aids for domestic service — has contributed as much as the mere increased expectation of survival to this striking phenomenon of a large and increasing number of aged and isolated individuals . |
| 11 | An unsigned act which is being chased by half a dozen record companies does have some leverage in negotiations , but only as much as the levels of supply and demand will allow . |
| 12 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 13 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 14 | Thus his erotic imagining of the usurping male is not the eruption of repressed homosexual desire so much as the fantasized , fearful convergence of identification and desire , precipitated by an actual convergence of their respective objects . |
| 15 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 16 | She knew the doctor thought she was a lunatic , but as she would never see her again , it did not matter now as much as the truth . |
| 17 | To get over the problem he sometimes insisted that he was Welsh , claiming that the Welsh disliked the English as much as the Icelanders . |
| 18 | Nathan returns , suggesting that you need to be in a sheltered spot for minimum discomfort ; he thinks that constipation is to be feared almost as much as the wind . |
| 19 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 20 | Rank , having carried the can on that occasion , then allowed spending on Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) to reach the mind-numbing figure of £1,280,000 , twice as much as The Red Shoes . |
| 21 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 22 | That , as much as the cost of mortgages , is why the system has frozen solid , with hardly anyone buying or selling . |
| 23 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 24 | Despite the all-party Social Services Committee report which criticised the pace at which Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , intended to introduce the reforms , as much as the proposals themselves , Tory dissent is likely to be confined to those rebels with detailed knowledge . |
| 25 | And while the bulk of public controversy has focused on Japanese investment , Britain plays by far the biggest role , accounting for 31 per cent of all foreign investment in the US , as much as the next two investors , the Dutch ( 14.9 per cent ) and the Japanese ( 16.1 per cent ) combined . |
| 26 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 27 | Supporters of civil disobedience , notably a loose , unholy alliance of Scottish Nationalists and the Militant Tendency -both out to embarrass law-abiding Labour councils as much as the Government — are adamant that a mass non-payment resistance is being mobilised , particularly on Scotland 's huge , outer-city housing estates . |
| 28 | Although it would be a tough year for sure , revenue was not dropping anything like as much as the bookings percentage . |
| 29 | Attitude is never going to count for as much as the Gift — the untranscribable charisma , the arbitrary aura , the unequally-bestowed vocal magic that no amount of homework or calculation can procure . |
| 30 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |