Example sentences of "[noun] as much as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
| 4 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 5 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 6 | As for yourself , syphilis can affect the mind as much as the body . ’ |
| 7 | The clumsy phrasing lodged in Blanche 's mind as much as the content . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From all this you will have gathered I am not a ‘ Money Making Knitter ’ , but I enjoy my machine as much as the family do their video and motor sport and it does not cost any more ! |
| 13 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 16 | And Daine 's neural dysfunctions have shaped his Dream as much as the externals he took from his old vids . ’ |
| 17 | The system challenges the management as much as the staff and this is a vital element in its acceptability . |
| 18 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 19 | It is her gallant courage as much as the danger she is in which impels Heritage and his chance-met companion Dickson McCunn to rescue her from her prison and , eventually , to defeat her persecutors . |
| 20 | The private sector therefore , need the support of an educated , employed and motivated community as much as the community needs the support of industry and commerce , and when I 'm asked whether , in these harsh economic times , business can still afford to support the community . |
| 21 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 22 | The dons resented their punishment as much as the doctors — but neither can fairly be described as radical on that account . |
| 23 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 24 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 25 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 26 | Aurally and visually the performance was an exhilarating experience , with the agile , sequined , Scottish soloist gliding among the percussion instruments dazzling the eye as much as the ear . |
| 27 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 28 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 29 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 30 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |