Example sentences of "much as his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led him to suppose that his capacity to argue a case was a talent which , quite as much as his imagination and his literary taste , must be consecrated . |
| 2 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |
| 3 | In February 1687 , Richard Baxter went to live in Charterhouse Yard in Clerkenwell where he assisted in the ministry of Matthew Sylvester as much as his health allowed . |
| 4 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 5 | It was Ninette de Valois who put him in touch with John Piper , whose work he had already known and admired before leaving Cape Town , although only from reproductions , just as much as his musical knowledge came from recordings . |
| 6 | If there was anything that Henry hated as much as his wife , it was the car they had chosen and purchased together . |
| 7 | He left no-one in any doubt that the player 's off-field activities as much as his suspect knees forced his exit from Old Trafford . |
| 8 | Never having taken much interest in the garden at Four Winds , other than it being a place in which to read or play solitary games , she at first decided that it was probably best to let him have his way ; but his silences began to unnerve her , as much as his occasional seemingly innocent remarks about his previous employers . |
| 9 | This is all very well , but what industry and the country are looking for is not his advice , so much as his commitment to long-term , economic stability , without which the efforts of everybody else will be vain . |
| 10 | Strangely , he knew at this moment that he 'd miss this house as much as his mother would . |
| 11 | And it is for his gaffes as much as his gifts that old Colemanballs — the column Private Eye named after them — will be remembered . |
| 12 | Your child poses no risk to other children and is able to go to nursery , playgroup or school and enjoy growing up with other children as much as his or her health allows . |
| 13 | Both were Dickie 's favourites , and though normally he ate twice as much as his mother and myself put together , he refused second helpings . |
| 14 | In return for his services he will be paid four times as much as his immediate predecessor , John Akers : up to $16m over three years . |
| 15 | One of the priests of Holy Trinity , Coventry , owned goods valued at no less than £100 , nearly three times as much as his eleven colleagues put together ; he was also vicar of Priors Hardwick . |
| 16 | De la Mare 's connections probably did as much as his eloquence to ensure his choice as speaker . |
| 17 | I HAVE APPRECIATED Matthew Fort 's delicious much-more-than-food columns in past issues , but none as much as his informative piece on oysters ( ‘ Dinners with Walruses ’ , The Seasoned Cook ) . |
| 18 | In the E flat Sonata I enjoyed his cajoling lyrical charm in the opening movement and the Menuetto as much as his pin-point clarity in the Scherzo and his mounting flames in the finale . |
| 19 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 20 | I did not like his horses as much as his busts and human figures . |
| 21 | Ex-Conservative Party grandee whose power was derived from his family 's ability to marry well as much as his own commercial acumen . |
| 22 | His sober , professional and dependable manner , as much as his editorial position , had put him on good terms with most managing directors of most record companies , but his contacts with Branson — while always cordial — had been few . |
| 23 | She reckoned her hand must sting as much as his butt . |
| 24 | His philanthropy as much as his fortune was the subject of speculation . |
| 25 | In Egypt , Lord Edward Cecil was incapable of buying so much as his ticket on his own . |
| 26 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |
| 27 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 28 | In one of his Delphic moods , he told himself , which was unfair , since the boss must sometimes puzzle himself as much as his underlings . |
| 29 | Reviled by Romanians almost as much as his parents for his playboy lifestyle and debauchery , he had been captured on Dec. 22 and paraded before the cameras at the television station in Bucharest ( the revolutionary headquarters of the National Salvation Front ) . |
| 30 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |