Example sentences of "as much as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 2 | In developing measuring tools for the local church we are concerned with quality control as much as quantity performance , to use commercial language . |
| 3 | New moralists , as much as purity feminists , were confronted by the power relations embedded in existing languages and the difficulties of transforming them . |
| 4 | As much as life and death . |
| 5 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 6 | A new theoretical formulation or a new analogy can be immensely important in furthering knowledge ; certainly just as much as can finding out a new fact . |
| 7 | Yet clean-up , on EPA estimates , costs roughly twice as much as containment . |
| 8 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |
| 9 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |
| 10 | Social relationships in medieval Sussex were based on military needs as much as economics , at least until the later fourteenth century . |
| 11 | Weber recognized the importance of economics in shaping social reality , but was concerned to demonstrate that culture and religion influenced economic development just as much as economics influenced culture . |
| 12 | In this strange , go-ahead land , where the British accent is appreciated as much as enthusiasm for a sales career quite mediocre dealers have landed choice jobs . |
| 13 | Foreign offices were affected by them just as much as service abroad . |
| 14 | In other words , it 's a question of attitude as much as location . |
| 15 | Although intelligence in the horse is an inherited characteristic , our handling of the horse will affect it as much as handling affects different characteristics of temperament . |
| 16 | Er but we try and eli eliminate the poorer companies , we try and make sure that we go for strength and security , as much as return . |
| 17 | In general , they speed up hard disk data transfer times by at least as much as software caches , but cost is likely to be a factor that you will have to weigh up . |
| 18 | These voltages are connected up in series along the length of the fish so that , in a strongly electric fish such as an electric eel , the whole battery generates as much as lamp at 650 volts . |
| 19 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 20 | , you heard did n't you , you heard that , you did n't hear as much as mum , your mother did , but they do , they erm , they do sense the things , we , we get quite . |
| 21 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 22 | ‘ She would never have to lift a hand to do an ounce of work — not as much as wash a cup . |
| 23 | Well , equally you could n't have an A T C Squadron in every small town or village in the country , and therefore they 've got to be , I mean , just as much as Otter Valley Boxing Club has extended its range to get more people , so the A T C have to be in some particular place . |
| 24 | It is a matter of politics as much as education whether they grasp the flow of history and understand how events flow into one another . |
| 25 | Yorkshire beaches hold a substance prized almost as much as gold by ancient Romans : black pebbles of high-quality jet . |
| 26 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 27 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 28 | This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil . |
| 29 | Taxes were to be uniformly imposed , whereas previously the self-employed paid up to three times as much as state employees . |
| 30 | Has n't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap ? |