Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 2 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Cry as much as you like , Miss Cathy , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Children on average grow as much as 2 feet between the ages of six to twelve . |
| 5 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 6 | In these changing circumstances Jenkins is willing to accept his responsibility , as club coach as much as assistant national coach , for Wales ' present condition and uncertain future . |
| 7 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 8 | I shall be taken to implicate that he has only fourteen and no more because had he had twenty , then by the maxim of Quantity ( " say as much as is required " ) I should have said so . |
| 9 | It is , of course , important to improve the trial process as much as possible but the trial can not be expected to offer an alternative to testing by way of re-investigation for reasons similar to those that led us to reject prosecutorial review as an alternative . |
| 10 | These non-commercial sources provide as much as 87 per cent of India 's cooking energy . |
| 11 | Shame as much as love prompted the denial . |
| 12 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 13 | Because in today 's financial climate , it 's more important than ever that your savings earn as much as possible for your family 's future . |
| 14 | But no woman manual workers in the industry yet earn as much as any of the men . |
| 15 | When someone talks to us , we receive as much as over two-thirds of the information through tone of voice and body language . |
| 16 | Some firms charge as much as 30 per cent interest . |
| 17 | little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months |
| 18 | If you think that Chronic Urethritis may be a problem , you can help yourself by taking the following measures : drinking a glass of water before you have intercourse , so that you fill your bladder ; making sure that you use a vaginal lubricant and relax as much as possible ; and the by remembering to empty your bladder soon after intercourse . |
| 19 | Well , relax as much as any mother can when she faces the destruction of her daughter 's marriage — whatever the cause . |
| 20 | Some game cartridges now cost as much as £65 and parents often end up shelling out as much as £160 for the cartridge and machine to play it on . |
| 21 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 22 | Because she was tired of looking at flats that were really bedsits , and bedsits that were really cupboards , but cost as much as if they had been flats . |
| 23 | According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself . |
| 24 | Remove as much as possible by scraping it off the glass and syphoning it out . |
| 25 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 26 | A signature may , however , if present as on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Low Countries drawings , add as much as 40% to the price . |
| 27 | The needs of the mentally disordered vary as much as their disabilities . |
| 28 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 29 | So please give as much as you can afford for this NATIONAL CRUSADE . |
| 30 | But a woman , who , when her own needs are n't met , and when she 's slowly disintegrating , is not going to be able to give very much to the children , or give as much as she could , so it makes sense , if she 's really concerned about those children , that she will put , quite often , her own needs above them in order to get her act together , so that she 's in control and feels good about what she 's doing so she 'll be able to give more . |