Example sentences of "much as the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 2 | According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself . |
| 3 | His yielding to the edicts of Number 10 on financial policy eventually enabled the main thrust of Thatcherite innovation to show itself here , even though it was often the moderation as much as the radicalism which was to impress observers . |
| 4 | A year before his death he was still reminding Du Camp about his surprise arrival with the young phenomenon , and still laughing as much as the day it had happened . |
| 5 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 7 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 8 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 9 | Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS . |
| 10 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 11 | Kate , who enjoyed the ritual of eating as much as the food itself , had been known to find this irritating , also . |
| 12 | It is her gallant courage as much as the danger she is in which impels Heritage and his chance-met companion Dickson McCunn to rescue her from her prison and , eventually , to defeat her persecutors . |
| 13 | it 's the person in the post as much as the post itself th th that |
| 14 | Critically , this approach to art production puts the stress on the means of representation as much as the representation itself . |
| 15 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 16 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |