Example sentences of "much as [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 2 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 3 | This is as much unnecessary as it is undesirable ; critical evaluation can lead to positive assessments , just as much as to negative ones . |
| 4 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 5 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 6 | The reasons for using video playback in the classroom apply to homemade materials as much as to published materials . |
| 7 | This imperative applies to both employers and employees as much as to those Christians at work in a secular context . |
| 8 | The advice given by these advisers would properly have been guided by expediency as much as by any rules of interpretation and as such can not be taken to represent a body of thought about dreaming . |
| 9 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 10 | Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives . |
| 11 | Management training and development are not encouraged as much as in large organisations . |