Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] much as if " in BNC.

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1 It looks not so much as if women are passively being forced into the arts and rejecting science , but that they are making very clear choices .
2 Throughout their journey several topics remained alive between them , to be returned to again and again , not so much as if the first discourse had not resolved matters — more as it they remained as life issues , or questions of the day .
3 The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music .
4 So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself .
5 They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note .
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