Example sentences of "much as [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much the cost estimates are padded or pared and how much profit is built in will reflect the company trading position as much as its technical ability . |
| 2 | She was paid as much as her male colleagues , and earned every penny . |
| 3 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |
| 4 | To be successful , future education for headship will need to pay greater attention to the prime importance of the development and growth of heads as persons ; it must therefore embrace consideration of their values and assumptions , their feelings and their intentions , and their relationships with others as much as their professional knowledge and teaching skills . |
| 5 | For the common people , as much as their political representatives , it was also the ultimate affirmation of the rightness of the American way , of the moral ascendancy of the United States . |
| 6 | Newspapers are peculiar products in as much as their first copy costs — the cost of producing the issue irrespective of the size of the print run — are so high . |
| 7 | They 're part of a European team working on a nuclear fusion project , but claim they 're paid only half as much as their continental colleagues . |
| 8 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 9 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 10 | It is this as much as their stubborn stupidity and iron-hard muscle which makes Trolls very hard to fight . |
| 11 | If the Spanish youngsters enjoy the adventure playground as much as their English counterparts , there should be no problem . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 13 | I HAVE APPRECIATED Matthew Fort 's delicious much-more-than-food columns in past issues , but none as much as his informative piece on oysters ( ‘ Dinners with Walruses ’ , The Seasoned Cook ) . |
| 14 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 15 | In the E flat Sonata I enjoyed his cajoling lyrical charm in the opening movement and the Menuetto as much as his pin-point clarity in the Scherzo and his mounting flames in the finale . |
| 16 | One of the priests of Holy Trinity , Coventry , owned goods valued at no less than £100 , nearly three times as much as his eleven colleagues put together ; he was also vicar of Priors Hardwick . |
| 17 | In return for his services he will be paid four times as much as his immediate predecessor , John Akers : up to $16m over three years . |
| 18 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |
| 19 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |
| 20 | His sober , professional and dependable manner , as much as his editorial position , had put him on good terms with most managing directors of most record companies , but his contacts with Branson — while always cordial — had been few . |
| 21 | Torrential rain saw the going at Doncaster change to soft after the second race which pleased trainer Richard Hannon almost as much as his 3,212–1 treble supplied by Rajmapata , Flight Lieutenant and Tickerty 's Gift . |
| 22 | It was Ninette de Valois who put him in touch with John Piper , whose work he had already known and admired before leaving Cape Town , although only from reproductions , just as much as his musical knowledge came from recordings . |
| 23 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 24 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 25 | There is some concern , however , that we are failing to capture the attention of the under-25s as much as our long term future demands , and steps are currently under way to improve matters . ’ |
| 26 | Gelada sexual dimorphism is only a part of a larger adaptive complex based on the fact that these baboons live in small groups in savanna grasslands subsisting on a diet of vegetable matter , presumably much as our hominid ancestors did . |