Example sentences of "much as [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 2 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 3 | No , the idea is to open it without so much as a nun 's fart . |
| 4 | The drink 's as much as the drinker 's . |
| 5 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 6 | Regardless of the wide use of acupuncture and BEM , hard-nosed sceptics still insist that such methods are entirely placebo oriented , in as much as the patient 's belief that they work effects the cure . |