Example sentences of "[adv] much as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The values of the ruling class were essentially military , and war was not incidental to life so much as its raison d'etre . |
| 2 | Similarly , with regard to the recent events in Cleveland ( DHSS , 1988a ) , it was not the good intentions of individual professionals that were criticised so much as their inability — or unwillingness — to operate as a team with a common purpose . |
| 3 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 4 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 5 | This is all very well , but what industry and the country are looking for is not his advice , so much as his commitment to long-term , economic stability , without which the efforts of everybody else will be vain . |
| 6 | In Egypt , Lord Edward Cecil was incapable of buying so much as his ticket on his own . |
| 7 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 8 | There is nothing that tells the truth about us , as Christian people , so much as our prayer life . |
| 9 | " I think … if my father discovered about us — I think he would n't punish me so much as my mother . |
| 10 | Gelada sexual dimorphism is only a part of a larger adaptive complex based on the fact that these baboons live in small groups in savanna grasslands subsisting on a diet of vegetable matter , presumably much as our hominid ancestors did . |
| 11 | When ill , which was often , Mrs Cohen acted as his nurse , and thus their children were largely left free to do as they liked , or at least as much as their ‘ nanny ’ allowed them . |
| 12 | For the common people , as much as their political representatives , it was also the ultimate affirmation of the rightness of the American way , of the moral ascendancy of the United States . |
| 13 | She had always accepted the unwritten law of the pop jungle — all publicity is good publicity — and no matter what the excuses , she needed the headlines as much as their writers needed her . |
| 14 | The writings of Scott and Street , as much as their designs , had shown that their Gothic was not just the selection of certain architectural elements , but a new approach to design . |
| 15 | By 19 years old the children smoked as much as their parents — 28 per cent of boys indulged compared with 36 per cent of girls . |
| 16 | ‘ He has this so-called reputation of the enfant terrible , but reputations can be the making of players as much as their undoing . |
| 17 | It was a sunny autumn afternoon in 1963 as John and Mary Briggs were walking along a disused trackbed in the West Country with their two Jack Russell terriers , Tina and Spot , who were enjoying their walk as much as their owners . |
| 18 | The world 's best golfers rely on their equipment as much as their skill . |
| 19 | ‘ Very grand women who were prized for their minds as much as their bodies were taken on board by powerful individuals . |
| 20 | A challenging , interesting job which helps tutors develop themselves as much as their students , and gives the chance to be involved in shaping the managers of tomorrow . |
| 21 | Some people literally develop another life in which they display a side of themselves that would shock their pupils as much as their colleagues if they were to find out . |
| 22 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 23 | It is this as much as their stubborn stupidity and iron-hard muscle which makes Trolls very hard to fight . |
| 24 | The counts of Nevers , the lords of Montpellier , the lords of Amboise and Lusignan , the Trencavels , were fervent devotees of the ideal ; so the problems of absences , shipwrecks , death abroad plagued them as much as their princes . |
| 25 | The needs of the mentally disordered vary as much as their disabilities . |
| 26 | Most of the Marines were experiencing their first combat , and the strain of combating the fear as much as their enemies was telling on their pale faces . |
| 27 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 28 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 29 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 30 | " Horace died " , says W.R. Johnson ( in his foreword to Raffel 1983 : ix ) , " thinking that he had spent most of his life watching the death of freedom and the disintegration of a culture and a civilization that he and many of his generation loved as much as their fathers had loved it . " |