Example sentences of "much as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 2 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 3 | British agents of government , whose primary responsibility was the collection of revenue , were given judicial duties , and the Board of Kandyan Commissioners functioned much as the Supreme Court in the Low Country , with the power to hear appeals and with original jurisdiction over serious criminal offences . |
| 4 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 5 | A race or two on prize day at the local school , modesty insisting on decent skirts and proper bloomers underneath them , was as much as the Irish girl was permitted . |
| 6 | Of the bronze statuary , most beautiful was the 5½ inch high Hellenistic figure of a nude youth ( around late second or early first century BC ) , which sold to the European trade for $170,000 ( est. $40–60,000 ) , though nothing excited the crowd quite so much as the Roman porphyry . |
| 7 | Yeah well some but not as much as the Communist Party |
| 8 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
| 9 | The stabled horse can not touch as much as the paddocked horse , nor can it scratch or have any reassuring contact with a companion . |
| 10 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 11 | It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka each month . |
| 12 | Sometime between 1806 and 1813 the twisting action we know today as remuage evolved , but it was the angled cut of the holes as much as the twisting motion which provided the key to the solution sought by the widow . |
| 13 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 14 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 15 | Planning and reviewing should be implicit in any team meeting — as much as the actual activity . |
| 16 | He has a certain reputation in Hebron ( though not as much as the exaggerated courtesy of verse 6 would suggest ) , but no political power . |
| 17 | Although folk-dance is embedded in their way of life , ballet has long been regarded much as the diplomatic service is in Britain : good money , plenty of respect and no political controversies . |
| 18 | Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured , nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory . |
| 19 | Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture . |
| 20 | It is as much as the developing world is paying every week to service its debts . " |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it was the economic climate , as much as the renewed trade union and working-class support for Labour , which contributed significantly to Labour 's victory in the 1929 General Election . |
| 22 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 23 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 24 | NOTHING characterised the late 1980s so much as the short skirt . |
| 25 | NOTHING characterised the late 1980s so much as the short skirt . |
| 26 | It emphasizes that what is important is not the fecund earth-mother herself so much as the dependent relation of the child to her and to her nutritive , sustaining functions . |
| 27 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 28 | At present , black comedy 's screen coverage is limited to The Real McCoy — whose shaky sets and second-rate scripts hinder the scene 's advancement as much as the very presence of the show helps it . |
| 29 | The fears they embody need dealing with just as much as the wrong thinking they exhibit . |
| 30 | Knowing it was all a pointless farce sapped my morale as much as the rigorous regime did my physique . |