Example sentences of "[prep] as [det] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 2 | In as much as feminism represented a split within the dominant classes , creating multiple fractures within liberalism , there were many women who carried with them their class perceptions of the ethical and beneficent state . |
| 3 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 4 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 5 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 6 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 7 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 8 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |