Example sentences of "much as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because plans set performance standards and create expectations in the political controllers , they are used to manipulate the external environment as much as to generate internal management commitment . |
| 2 | The third section ( ‘ Palestine ’ ) does not conclude the novel so much as make explicit the narrative implications of what has happened so far . |
| 3 | His face bore the marks of much , not always peaceful meditation ; the look of it not bland or benevolent so much as close impregnable and hard . |
| 4 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 5 | Not even very kind , very polite young men in her year at art school had so much as thawed one tiny corner of her iced-up emotions . |
| 6 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 7 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 8 | Now if they pull it off everybody 'll heave a sigh of relief and their methods will be forgiven , and if they do n't then it 'll all be Number 10 's fault and that would probably suit their book just as much as coming good on Plainsong itself . ’ |
| 9 | They behave much as do similar characters found in the epics of other nations . |
| 10 | Er I think that 's wonderful , wonderful work they 've done , er they 're absolutely dedicated , they 've so much as spent all their time in the last four years working here . |
| 11 | Fantastic literature ‘ does not introduce novelty , so much as uncover all that needs to remain hidden if the world is to be comfortably ‘ known' ’ … |
| 12 | But also you can get , you know you , you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little , renewing every , every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you have n't said before , like I had n't told you or Pete , you know , things like that . |
| 13 | We should recognise that sexual imagery can challenge as much as uphold prevailing sexual orthodoxies and that the law has no place in deciding what is good and what is bad , because it will always get it wrong . |