Example sentences of "much 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 | ‘ We improved in as much as we won one game , ’ said North McQuay , secretary of the Irish Bowling Association and an international selector . |
| 4 | But remember the advice of Robin Leigh-Pemberton , governor of the Bank of England : the 12-month inflation rate reflects what happened a year ago as much as what happened last month . |
| 5 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 8 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 10 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 11 | At the time , Jean-Claude was paralysed with grief , and much as he craved professional recognition , he had no idea how to pursue it . |
| 12 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |
| 13 | 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 . |