Example sentences of "[prep] as much as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Assessment would include major group projects , in which the conduct of the project would count for as much as the end product , as well as written examinations . |
| 4 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 5 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 6 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 7 | In as much as the purpose of the trials is to establish the suitability of a package of products , used for maintenance rather than remedial cleaning , it may also be necessary to arrange for a ‘ deep clean ’ prior to the trial otherwise the results may be distorted . |
| 8 | Regardless of the wide use of acupuncture and BEM , hard-nosed sceptics still insist that such methods are entirely placebo oriented , in as much as the patient 's belief that they work effects the cure . |
| 9 | No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom . |
| 10 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 11 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 12 | ‘ A guy can suffer an injury on the first match of a tour or go through a tough schedule without as much as a bump . |
| 13 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
| 14 | And cash savings may not be cut by as much as the government hopes . |
| 15 | Previous SDS-sequestration studies using synthetic oligonucleotides have suggested that a proximal G or distal C increases the rate of dissociation from GC sites by as much as an order of magnitude [ 19 ] . |