Example sentences of "[adv] much as [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 2 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 3 | In any case , why should someone with short hair styled by the most recently qualified , pay as much as someone with long hair looked after by their most expert ? |
| 4 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 5 | The trouble was that being a good club player , even being an outstanding club player , does not of itself make you a worthy international , and it was Waldron 's failure to recognise this of his own Neath players that contributed as much as anything to his downfall . |
| 6 | The success of a diplomatic mission depends as much as anything on the quality of the information . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , it was a sad event which did as much as anything in 1992 to help me put my own worries into perspective . |
| 8 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 9 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 10 | There are now over forty Compacts in operation , which are succeeding — as much as anything by involving parents in the deal . |
| 11 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 12 | If capitalism is on a headlong cascade into a new world , socialism , he says , ‘ collided with the future ’ , let down as much as anything by its failure to understand information and organization , its doomed attempt to apply the modes of engineering to thought , and its obsession with hardware rather than software . |
| 13 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 14 | And as much as none of us would like that , I feel it may be , you know , it may , it will be something that will be over very quickly , er the only worry of course is that so many people will get hurt , but if that 's the way to end it all then perhaps that 's what should be done . |
| 15 | Both Hitch and Morton had worked for Plummer for more than ten years and he trusted them as much as anyone in his organisation . |