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

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1 So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice .
2 Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished .
3 An unsigned act which is being chased by half a dozen record companies does have some leverage in negotiations , but only as much as the levels of supply and demand will allow .
4 Dice up the leaves and feed only as much as the fish will consume in ten minutes .
5 And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales .
6 Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break .
7 All engineers know about stress concentrations but a good many do n't really in their hearts believe in them since it is clearly contrary to common sense that a tiny hole should weaken a material just as much as a great big one .
8 But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help .
9 For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK .
10 Furniture of that quality formed part of the interior architecture , just as much as the fine chimneypieces and doors .
11 What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch .
12 It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left .
13 Again material changes stimulated the new thinking just as much as the perceived inadequacies of existing theory .
14 You need the Anders Limpars just as much as the Tony Adams .
15 The fears they embody need dealing with just as much as the wrong thinking they exhibit .
16 Over time , less glamorous ‘ tortoises ’ can change the rules of competition and the structures of industry just as much as the ‘ hares ’ of rapid change .
17 The adult seems to enjoy the experience just as much as the baby does .
18 Now it is a sport , and it is a skilled game you know , and I think women can play it just as well as men , or against men and you know , you can have your fans who are very strong for your women 's team tha just as much as the men , but yet , would they also be branded as hooligans because they go along and stand on the terraces and shout for the girls ?
19 And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well .
20 The variety of sexual identities then possible took control of the ‘ private ’ out of the hands of the dominant culture ; it is this fact , just as much as the actual physical acts , that made the ‘ permissive ’ society ( as it was called by the right ) a phenomenon to be at first feared , and finally to be held up as what was wrong with Britain .
21 In Eretz family life will not be the same as you have known here in Cork or anywhere in the Diaspora because in the settlements women are involved in communal work just as much as the men are .
22 Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves .
23 It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed .
24 ( That is to say , the fit between meanings and perceptions is a matter of social convention , just as much as the historical process by which each language comes to have its own particular set of word forms for the meanings which it uses .
25 In this way , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance just as much as the reformulation does .
26 The aim … to hit the high speeding , high earners just as much as the less well off , who still enjoy life in the fast lane .
27 Not admittedly as much as the argument about whether you can see Schiehallion or not , but certainly enough to end in tears .
28 I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget .
29 of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough .
30 For those cursed with absolute pitch I should say that all these recordings are distinctly on the sharp side of A440 concert pitch — sometimes by nearly as much as a quarter-tone .
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