Example sentences of "[det] as [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 2 | The rhetoric of ‘ community ’ , however , often serves to obscure as much as to clarify the changes that have occurred . |
| 3 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 4 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 5 | This is also partly the reason why in Adorno 's theory music in a sense takes on too much autonomy , so much as to create a danger of a relapse into idealism . |
| 6 | The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media . |
| 7 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |
| 8 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 9 | Whilst not nearly as extensive , it embodies several of the same incentives , such as to improve the range and quality of one 's own services in order to attract more patients and to review carefully the appropriateness of utilising certain hospital services . |
| 10 | For those who could do so , to subscribe to the militant slogans of Pravda was not the same as to accept the party line on every issue , still less that of Lenin . |
| 11 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |