Example sentences of "much [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has n't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap ? |
| 2 | Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot . |
| 3 | When confronted with the excesses of the anti-French mobs in 1808 it was almost natural that such men , with fear as much as hope in their hearts , should become supporters of French rule . |
| 4 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We may long to scream , ‘ If you ever , ever so much as look at a prohibited substance , I 'll lock you in your bedroom until you 're 30 , ’ but we have to master our panic . |
| 8 | He was an influential figure in the founding of the Royal College of Pathologists and did much as secretary of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland to create and foster links with sister European societies , especially in Holland and Norway . |
| 9 | The right to be relieved in one 's parish , perhaps as much as aversion to the workhouse as an institution , lay behind riots in Suffolk in 1765 where a practice of building large workhouses to serve several parishes had been developing since a private enabling statute had been obtained in 1756 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yorkshire beaches hold a substance prized almost as much as gold by ancient Romans : black pebbles of high-quality jet . |
| 12 | Indeed , it was the quality of the latter revenue department , as much as opposition to income taxation in principle , which had inclined eighteenth-century governments towards using indirect taxes on consumption alongside the traditional land tax . |
| 13 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 14 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 15 | I see them every day and familiarity does n't breed contempt so much as disgust in me . |
| 16 | It is bound to affect the way we handle real and potential conflict situations , as much as dislike of fresh air and exercise may contribute to deciding for a family camping holiday or not . |