Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 2 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 3 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 4 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 5 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 6 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 7 | Again , my aim is to have clarified as much as possible by the end of November , so we can bring it all together at the Senior Management Strategy Conference . |
| 8 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 9 | It was Colborne as much as anyone who took Diana under his wing in the early days . |
| 10 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 11 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 12 | But this figure is an average and includes everyone from junior clerks to bosses who have earned as much as $22 million in the past . |
| 13 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 14 | After ten rounds of the game , I could theoretically have won as much as $5,000 , but only if you have been extraordinarily silly ( or saintly ) and played COOPERATE every time , in spite of the fact that I was consistently defecting . |
| 15 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |
| 16 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 17 | This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase . |
| 18 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 19 | As the foregoing arguments have suggested , control is not imposed so much as negotiated or bargained between parties who both have considerable power resources ( cf. Aharoni 1981a : 1342 ) . |
| 20 | Stall rentals had risen as much as 100% in six months from the beginning of I 979 and the administration began charging for a number of fictitious additional costs , such as repairs to electricity installations which were in theory covered by the municipal government . |
| 21 | Consequently , the figures do not appear to have risen as much as they actually have . |
| 22 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 23 | Her rapid breathing was proof that her emotions were stirred as much as his , but she shrank away , flattening her body against the cold wood rather than succumb to his persuasion . |
| 24 | It is n't eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody . |
| 25 | She flushed scarlet , hastily collected as much as she could carry and started off up the cliff path . |
| 26 | They have done as much as anyone to establish the biological functioning of play . |
| 27 | I gave up my management job in industry and since then we 've done as much as we can every day . |
| 28 | With her films The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman in addition to ten years at Covent Garden , she had , I think , done as much as anyone to help put British post-war ballet on the map . |
| 29 | By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km . |
| 30 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |