Example sentences of "[adv] as much [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right to be relieved in one 's parish , perhaps as much as aversion to the workhouse as an institution , lay behind riots in Suffolk in 1765 where a practice of building large workhouses to serve several parishes had been developing since a private enabling statute had been obtained in 1756 . |
| 2 | It was a vocation just as much as marriage and sometimes far less demanding . |
| 3 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 4 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 5 | Foreign offices were affected by them just as much as service abroad . |
| 6 | Well , equally you could n't have an A T C Squadron in every small town or village in the country , and therefore they 've got to be , I mean , just as much as Otter Valley Boxing Club has extended its range to get more people , so the A T C have to be in some particular place . |
| 7 | Comics distort reality just as much as soap operas , and may be open to all sorts of subversive design . |
| 8 | To some extent the notion of academic scepticism is a caricature or even downright inaccurate ; the advancement of knowledge requires emotional commitment just as much as detachment , and it is the ground-rules of public research rather than the temperament of academics which sustain objective criticism . |
| 9 | Theorizing , according to Habermas , is not some free-floating intellectual activity , but has to be socially situated and contextualized just as much as practice ; indeed , it is more accurately seen as theoretical practice . |
| 10 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 11 | In general , they speed up hard disk data transfer times by at least as much as software caches , but cost is likely to be a factor that you will have to weigh up . |
| 12 | The easterners need qualified staff at least as much as cash . |
| 13 | Yorkshire beaches hold a substance prized almost as much as gold by ancient Romans : black pebbles of high-quality jet . |
| 14 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 15 | Sally Burgess , mime and dancer almost as much as singer , recruited all her allure and sensuality to overcome her husband 's reluctance to disclose his sinister secrets . |
| 16 | This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil . |
| 17 | Yet clean-up , on EPA estimates , costs roughly twice as much as containment . |
| 18 | It consistently out-performs wheat in parched and sterile earth and in the savanna region of central Brazil , it frequently yields twice as much as wheat . |
| 19 | It needs a spacial storage tank , which has to be refilled by tanker , and it costs almost twice as much as mains gas . |
| 20 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 21 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |
| 22 | Whatever the cause of this increase , it may be contributing almost half as much as carbon dioxide in the global greenhouse effect . |