Example sentences of "much as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil . |
| 2 | Taxes were to be uniformly imposed , whereas previously the self-employed paid up to three times as much as state employees . |
| 3 | In other words , it 's a question of attitude as much as location . |
| 4 | Comics distort reality just as much as soap operas , and may be open to all sorts of subversive design . |
| 5 | Fokine 's advice to those wishing to create the romantic style of dance was much as fur demi-caractère when he said : ‘ The choreographer should base his design on classical technique from the feet to the waist , but above that the dancer 's head , body and arms must be free to express the moods , emotions and actions of the character in the story or theme to be communicated . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She would never have to lift a hand to do an ounce of work — not as much as wash a cup . |
| 7 | Has n't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap ? |
| 8 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 9 | It is a matter of politics as much as education whether they grasp the flow of history and understand how events flow into one another . |
| 10 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 11 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |
| 12 | Kisses afterwards from her parents , her coach Ian Robinson and her manager Ian Mackenzie contained relief as much as celebration . |
| 13 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 14 | This , as practised by ordinary mortals rather than professional scribes , can cover everything from neatness to wild illegibility — much as handwriting does today among our nearest and dearest . |
| 15 | When confronted with the excesses of the anti-French mobs in 1808 it was almost natural that such men , with fear as much as hope in their hearts , should become supporters of French rule . |
| 16 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 17 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 18 | Mature leaves of pioneers were attacked six times as much as canopy species . |
| 19 | Shame as much as love prompted the denial . |
| 20 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 21 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |
| 22 | It was a vocation just as much as marriage and sometimes far less demanding . |
| 23 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 24 | He had a parcel under his arm , and much as Mum pleaded with him he would n't stay . |
| 25 | , you heard did n't you , you heard that , you did n't hear as much as mum , your mother did , but they do , they erm , they do sense the things , we , we get quite . |
| 26 | Yet clean-up , on EPA estimates , costs roughly twice as much as containment . |
| 27 | Social relationships in medieval Sussex were based on military needs as much as economics , at least until the later fourteenth century . |
| 28 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 29 | In this strange , go-ahead land , where the British accent is appreciated as much as enthusiasm for a sales career quite mediocre dealers have landed choice jobs . |
| 30 | If we can not take the initiative in refusing to dock tails , and are unable to so much as raise an eyebrow at what we suspect are dog fighting injuries , then why should we care how many dogs are killed weekly by the RSPCA ? |