Example sentences of "[det] as [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change .
2 The paradox is that social representation theorists must search for those aspects of socially shared beliefs which would not classify as social representations , just as much as they study social representations .
3 It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ .
4 Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists .
5 The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London .
6 At the time , Jean-Claude was paralysed with grief , and much as he craved professional recognition , he had no idea how to pursue it .
7 He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation .
8 As much as I hate comparative reviews — I can never really justify deifying one package at the expense of several other perfectly good packages — WSWIN has facilities that I find to be very attractive and useful .
9 I mean I think the , I , I think it can effect this , but not that materially erm there are many as you know different provinces round the world and what happens in the C I S is , is obviously very important for the Middle East and so erm it will have an impact .
10 They also exert a fascination very much of their own as they slither round circuses and brush through old city gates , flashing arcs of lightning as they switch tracks on winter nights .
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