Example sentences of "much as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 2 | The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished . |
| 3 | Of course , when each army arrived at the other 's bastide , it found no defences , and looted as much as it wished . |
| 4 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 5 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 7 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 8 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 9 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 10 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 11 | It fitted her in as much as it had ever fitted anyone , but the bodice hung droopily over her breasts , and the neckline gaped softly round her throat , and the hem dipped at the back , with a scarcely perceptible , ineradicable dip . |
| 12 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 13 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 14 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 15 | We do not scrutinise European legislation properly ; indeed , we allow the Executive to carry on very much as it pleases . |
| 16 | Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit . |
| 17 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 18 | If the railway is free to spark as much as it likes , farmers can pay them to reduce the sparks that locomotives emit . |
| 19 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 20 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 21 | ‘ Art therapy is very much as it sounds , it is about people transferring feelings into something which is tangible , ’ said Gloria . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 23 | The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine . |
| 24 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 25 | The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense . |
| 26 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 27 | In the food industry , the rice grown by Japan 's protected farmers costs several times as much as it does abroad . |
| 28 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 29 | Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information . |
| 30 | The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me . |