Example sentences of "[noun pl] as much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bergg said the Liberal Democrates would discourage the use of cars as much as possible . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | You would n't be living like that because of comfort , because of security " — he seemed to be making an effort to despise these words as much as she did — " but because of your aim . |
| 4 | Here we may confront Lodge with his fellow critic-novelist , Anthony Burgess , who in Joysprick : an introduction to the language of James Joyce , proposes a division of novelists into " Class 1 " and " Class 2 A Class 1 novelist is one " in whose work language is a zero quality , transparent , unseductive , the overtones of connotation and ambiguity totally damped The Class 2 novelist is one for whom " ambiguities , puns and centrifugal connotations are to be enjoyed rather than regretted , and whose books , made out of words as much as characters and incidents , lose a great deal when adapted to a visual medium " . |
| 5 | The deep sound of the bells rolled through Knockglen twice a day , at noon and at six in the evening , great timekeepers as much as reminders to pray . |
| 6 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 7 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 8 | LOFTS As much as 25 per cent of home heat is lost through an uninsulated roof . |
| 9 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 10 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Our exclusive interview begins on page 40 and I 'm sure you once you 've read it , you 'll be looking forward to Olympics as much as I am . |
| 12 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 13 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 14 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 15 | The producers cared about the songs as much as about the sketches . |
| 16 | The final choice , yet to be made , centred as much around how the suppliers coped with these demands as much as the actual performance figures . |
| 17 | Even when the more violent and disruptive aspects of events in France had become clearly visible , it was often the methods as much as the objectives of the revolutionaries which aroused opposition . |
| 18 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 19 | Any agent worth his salt knew that promotion under Postelnicu depended upon satisfying the minister 's whims as much as doing his proper job well . |
| 20 | On issues like unilateralism or the economy , papers like the Guardian and Telegraph did seem to influence their readers as much as the tabloids , but not on the question of voting choice . |
| 21 | smaller livestock orientated units with much greater personal attention paid to the well-being of the stock to reduce losses as much as possible ; |
| 22 | The Ukrainians hated the Jews as much as we did . |
| 23 | They had actually chosen themselves to come in on the study and so they were obviously schools which were particularly interested in involving parents as much as they could , and erm they would all certainly have done as , probably as much as most schools in the country are doing as , as far as involving parents are concerned , both in having parent helpers in the classrooms , and in having organisations for parents and social events for parents of the , of the fundraising type . |
| 24 | In fact , her target audience has always been the unenterprising middle- classes , in big private companies as much as in the public sector , looking for security in the form of a home , a pensionable job and a company car . |
| 25 | People 's values and attitudes arise out of their material environment and daily experiences as much as out of what they hear or read . |
| 26 | That is , the Third World needs to be involved from the start in the development of the next generation of machines , which will transform our lives as much as the car did . |
| 27 | I hope you do n't mind but I believe my own dog would not appreciate the goodies as much as those who are in the kennels . |
| 28 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 29 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 30 | Obviously it 's right that we should try and persuade the German government to delay matters as much as possible . |