Example sentences of "much as they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 2 | But , the designers also learned much as they discovered the snags in their suggestions and the way they made them . |
| 3 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 4 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 5 | They have acquired the ability to read much as they acquired the ability to speak , effortlessly , ‘ informally ’ , and often unnoticed . |
| 6 | Until the United States sanctions on Nicaragua and its backing for the Contra war come to an end , these limitations on living standards will continue to affect prisoners as much as they affect the rest of the population . |
| 7 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 8 | Er in as much as they maintained the , the labour force . |
| 9 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 10 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 11 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 12 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |