Example sentences of "much as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We improved in as much as we won one game , ’ said North McQuay , secretary of the Irish Bowling Association and an international selector . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | At the time , Jean-Claude was paralysed with grief , and much as he craved professional recognition , he had no idea how to pursue it . |
| 5 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |