Example sentences of "much as it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 2 | IBM was unable to know everything about everything , much as it would have liked to — so it had to learn to cooperate . |
| 3 | No self-respecting working educational body , much as it may desire to retain close and friendly relations with the Board ( of Education ) , Universities , etc. , can go on being hampered in its work by the increasing number of organisations concerned either telling it what to do , what it should not do , or advising it in both these directions … there is a grave danger of our movement ultimately being strangled by our friends . |
| 4 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |
| 5 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |