Example sentences of "much as [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are universities being cut as much as for example primary schools and secondary schools ? |
| 2 | The AFPFL members of the Council therefore came up with an announcement intended for public consumption as much as for adoption by the Council . |
| 3 | Accidents of history , as much as of geography , had played their part in making the village . |
| 4 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 5 | Not only does teaching a teenager at school cost less than half as much as at university . |
| 6 | Not as much as at home — at Inveraray , Elizabeth thought , but more than she had expected . |
| 7 | What is at stake in this , and in the work of a number of other writers whom Neale acknowledged , is a sensitivity to generic difference as much as to repetition , and , in particular , to generic difference which can not simply be assigned to the magical agency of authorship . |
| 8 | Thus , even in 1959 , the antidote to pessimism as much as to Incompetence involves the imposition of " physical and mental discipline " capable of countering what another Critical Quarterly contributor calls the " debilitating hedonism of a " good-time " civilization . " |
| 9 | My own view is that , if you want really high-quality fish , and can possibly afford them , now is the time to buy , Good , old-fashioned haggling is supposed to be alien to the British nature , but we are rediscovering the art — which applies to Koi just as much as to motor cars or kitchen units ! |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as Suwardjo ( 1986 ) has discussed , these programmes have not only caused accelerated soil erosion , which in Sumatra may amount to as much as per year , but also a loss of soil fertility , especially in areas cleared mechanically rather than by hand . |
| 11 | If US generic production seems more dynamic than that of the UK , it is because the economy is driven by difference as much as by repetition : while the one secures recognition of a welcome familiarity , the other differentiates this familiar object from all competitors and discovers the ‘ exploitation angles ’ which will make it different and completely unexpected within a genre and a medium which is all too familiar . |
| 12 | The change to a real coalition in 1916 had been occasioned by the need to give Lloyd George a freer hand as much as by concern for structures . |
| 13 | ‘ Punched the sailor without so much as by th'leave ! |
| 14 | A monkey-glander , essence of queen bees ; and intense by choice and exercise as much as by nature . |
| 15 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 16 | From total instinct as much as from injury I lay as dead . |
| 17 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 18 | It is here , as much as in psychology , that woman-centred theories of subjectivity are articulated ; for woman-centred theories look like humanist psychological theories which have redefined human potential as feminine potential . |
| 19 | If we follow this , the play with conventions , in television narrative subgenres as much as in language , may not simply be a classical ( or postmodern ) fascination with language games , but may also contain a ‘ naturalist ’ ( or modernist ) desire to revitalize forms that have become stale and hackneyed , and are no longer adequate to the world in which people believe . |
| 20 | The future , therefore , lies in intellectual co-operation and communication as much as in network infrastructure . |
| 21 | It tries to make evident , to say what in these complex relations remains unsaid and therefore unthought , in design practice as much as in design policy or social thinking . |
| 22 | In a country where innovation is prized in welfare as much as in technology , there is no reason that this right will not increasingly extend to other groups — Specialised Housing 's initiative has already caused the families of people with a severely mentally ill child to start thinking whether such an option might be open to them — but the fact remains that in the USA parents have even fewer options than in this country . |
| 23 | In antiracism as much as in multiculturalism , the absence of any serious engagement with issues around sexuality in the ‘ irrationality ’ of popular racism is symptomatic of a rationalist understanding of pedagogies and educational processes . |
| 24 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 25 | Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter . |