Example sentences of "[adv] much as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 2 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 3 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 4 | Not so much as he thought he was . |
| 5 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 6 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 7 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 8 | A Big Mac in a Hong Kong McDonald 's costs half as much as one bought in a big-city McDonald 's in the United States . |
| 9 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 10 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |
| 11 | They should be able to hold prices and they certainly should n't got up by as much as they thought they might have to put them up . |
| 12 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 13 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 14 | For the next ten minutes or so she sat listening to these mature men chipping him , and he , her quiet Charlie , giving them back as much as they sent . |
| 15 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 16 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 17 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 18 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 19 | And loved it every bit as much as they adored their riverside home . |
| 20 | In fact the acts symbolised repression as much as they enabled it . |
| 21 | Some of the advisers brought into government by Mrs Thatcher disliked the old-style Conservatism almost as much as they detested socialism . |
| 22 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |
| 23 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 24 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 25 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 26 | At one time , young professionals could borrow as much as they liked to buy their home , on the promise of their growing salary and sure prospects . |
| 27 | A squire 's trick , the Corn Laws , banning the import of cheap foreign corn — which would have meant cheap bread in the cities — so that the squires , who grew the stuff on those ancestral lands of theirs could charge as much as they liked for it . |
| 28 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |
| 29 | That way people could stare at him as much as they wanted to and as much as he wanted them to ; then at the crucial moment he would lift his face and turn those famous eyes on his chosen suitor for the evening . |
| 30 | People were encouraged to say as much as they wanted to in answer to these questions , and I later categorised their responses according to the kinds of consequences they envisaged : effects on children , effects on the community generally , and effects on them personally ( or their immediate families ) . |