Example sentences of "[det] as [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Rather , he means the workings of a live intelligence which draws on experience and intuition as much as on a more narrowly conceived logic .
2 While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief .
3 Mr Morton and his colleagues will have to answer some awkward questions , not least from small investors , many of whom bought into the company attracted by the perks and the sense of excitement as much as by a detailed understanding of the economics of the enterprise .
4 Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course .
5 I said , he eats about a as much as much as like a corn packet !
6 You can enjoy the water in a small dinghy as much as in a luxury yacht .
7 And frequently , at the end of his life as much as in A Free Man 's Worship , you find him talking about nature in these highly personalized terms .
8 If the pipe has frozen , the ice ‘ plug ’ is almost certainly outside , and the solution is the same as for a supply pipe — that is , the application of heat .
9 Where sexual contact takes place in aggravating circumstances ( which are the same as for a first degree offence ) , criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is committed .
10 As far as " goods " are concerned , the situation is the same as with a sale of goods contract because the definition of goods excludes things in action of which copyright is an example .
11 But this too has problems , some of which are the same as with a statutory cash ratio :
12 The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way .
13 Much the same as In a family . "
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