Example sentences of "[adv] much as [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 2 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 3 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 4 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 5 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 6 | You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’ |
| 7 | Now that capital and entrepreneurship are free to cross borders , the old trade measures may conceal as much as they reveal . |
| 8 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 9 | While the global system is most commonly classified in terms of First , Second and Third Worlds , and these are very convenient and for many purposes useful labels , it is certain that they conceal as much as they reveal . |
| 10 | However , these scores hide as much as they reveal . |
| 11 | As for articles 52 and 221 , in as much as they refer to establishment and participation in capital , they can in any event apply only to persons and not to ships . |
| 12 | ‘ Though it 's nowhere near as much as they recommend , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I am being taken to the realms of the People , who hate nature as much as they hate me , who am unnatural . |
| 14 | It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change . |
| 15 | They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like . |
| 16 | The future of the Daily Mirror is now in hock to City spivs and business tycoons — Hon. Gentlemen can shout as much as they like , but does the Prime Minister agree that citizens ' rights are best protected by pluralistic ownership of the press ? |
| 17 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
| 18 | Whether I am talking to the residents of Moss Side in Manchester , or Scotswood in Newcastle , I am left in no doubt that they dislike their local councillors and councils as much as they dislike the Government . |
| 19 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 20 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 21 | They will do and say as much as they dare , to get the client 's money . |
| 22 | This is one reason why libraries do not always weed as much as they need to . |
| 23 | As much as they need to get the job done . |
| 24 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 25 | Until the United States sanctions on Nicaragua and its backing for the Contra war come to an end , these limitations on living standards will continue to affect prisoners as much as they affect the rest of the population . |
| 26 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 27 | They choose to tax as much as they want to and they choose to spend as much as they want to and no one can tell them otherwise , there is no central control over that . |
| 28 | They choose to tax as much as they want to and they choose to spend as much as they want to and no one can tell them otherwise , there is no central control over that . |
| 29 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 30 | Data on consultation rates conceal as much as they uncover . |