Example sentences of "[adv] much as it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) . |
| 2 | I readily acknowledge that in Scotland the Crown has no direct interest in sentence in as much as it does n't , in contrast with Russia or America , request the court to impose a specific sentence . |
| 3 | In the food industry , the rice grown by Japan 's protected farmers costs several times as much as it does abroad . |
| 4 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 5 | It fitted her in as much as it had ever fitted anyone , but the bodice hung droopily over her breasts , and the neckline gaped softly round her throat , and the hem dipped at the back , with a scarcely perceptible , ineradicable dip . |
| 6 | In reality , the state must be conceived of as an ‘ educator ’ , in as much as it tends precisely to create a new type of civilisation … . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is conceded by the representatives of the parties to this appeal that an order made in the terms made by the justices was not open to them in as much as it did not impinge upon the parental responsibility of the parent concerned and impinged only upon contact between the parents themselves . |
| 8 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 9 | as much as it has there we look like getting . |