Example sentences of "[adv] much [conj] it would [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Treaty in as much as it would prevent the exercise of the right of establishment on a secondary basis .
2 I pointed out that the samples cost damn near as much as it would cost to paint the room , but a woman in paint picking mode is not an easy person to reason with .
3 Since then , and particularly in the past three months , the economic blockade of northern Iraq by Saddam Hussein has prevented the UNHCR from doing as much as it would like to do .
4 It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment .
5 All this has swelled OPEC 's coffers , but not by as much as it would have liked .
6 As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment .
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