Example sentences of "much [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 2 | How much political and economic activity took place outside the control of the priesthood or the king is unclear . |
| 3 | Ultimately , a new currency has to be issued by the central bank and the financial system is rebuilt , but not before much political and social damage has been inflicted on the country . |
| 4 | Whether or not governments should take greater powers to break up already existing monopolies is an issue which is as much political as economic , for it involves issues of the freedom of the individual and the state . |
| 5 | In three other areas , as much political as organizational , advances were made towards the management of the press , the coordination of the heterogeneous collection that made up the party , and the fostering of modern attitudes in the local parties . |
| 6 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 7 | IBM and a few other US and Japanese companies provide the electronic means for much administrative and bureaucratic work at the heart of government and management around the world . |
| 8 | ‘ As much weak as evil , I suspect , ’ said Alexander . |
| 9 | Significantly , it 's their first album for A&M , who they signed with in the summer , and sounds not so much sterilised and clean , but better laid-out . |
| 10 | Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political : he who pays the piper calls the tune . |
| 11 | The vast majority of chartered accountants do provide a very high standard of service : as a result , public expectation is high which is why when the relatively few failures do occur , they lead to so much concentrated and adverse publicity . |
| 12 | I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile . |
| 13 | The larvae of ichneumid wasps are parasitic on the developmental stages of insects or spiders , which egg laying females locate by searching narrowly circumscribed micro-habitats ; they are as much niche-specific as host-specific , and it is because there is such a range of niches in a garden that there are so many kinds of adult wasps . |
| 14 | They start at the beginning and tell the whole story , pulling no mathematical punches but providing so much historical and biographical material , as well as physical explanations , that a complete mathematical ignoramus could gain much from the work by reading the words and skipping the equations . |
| 15 | Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations . |
| 16 | It is also of relevance however because it is the only one of the experimental areas that deals principally with a town centre and thus with functions that are as much commercial and retail as they are residential . |
| 17 | Further refinements in technique and trial design may well open the way for much exciting and profitable research in homoeopathy in the near future . |
| 18 | If you have a small room use as much transparent and fold-up-and-put-away furniture as possible . |
| 19 | But she could n't just desert them , either ; for several members of the cast this play of Josh Thayer 's was the first decent break they 'd had , and she knew from dressing-room conversations just how much personal and emotional investment they 'd made in its success . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 21 | His Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune was the strangest I have ever heard : drably overcast , not so much seductive as comatose , and so deathly slow that audible flute breaths were essential in the pauses . |
| 22 | This balance between an individual 's freedom of choice , or ‘ free will ’ as it is often described , and the influences of forces external to each individual , called determinism , has been the basis of much philosophical and theological debate . |
| 23 | The real challenge was as much moral as technical . |
| 24 | Kafka-esque is inevitably the word that will be employed to describe the image-battering confusion and dark horror of this picture of the collapsed state , as much moral as political , of Germany in the weeks immediately following the end of the war . |
| 25 | Moreover , at least since the nineteenth century there has been a spillover into the State schools of the ethos of the independent boarding schools , the purpose of which was understood to be as much moral as academic , with character-training high on the agenda . |
| 26 | The whole village therefore meets socially on only rare occasions , such as the parish meeting or the village fête , but even here socializing is often highly ritualized and rudimentary , as much symbolic as real . |
| 27 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 28 | These are ‘ live ’ performances ( Moscow PO/Lazarev ) from the finals of the 1978 Moscow Tchaikovsky competition and have a special place on my shelves , as does that much underrated and under-used conductor Jascha Horenstein , who accompanies Erich Gruenberg in the Beethoven Violin Concerto ( New Philharmonia , circa 1980 ) . |
| 29 | He spoke on the transformation of literary criticism over the previous thirty years and , no doubt with the memory of John Peter 's interpretation of The Waste Land in mind , warned against too much psychological or biographical conjecture in the explication of poetry . |
| 30 | The story is as much inspirational as sad , for with it we are made aware of the part we can play in our own Christmas story . |