Example sentences of "[noun pl] as much as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 8 | The Ukrainians hated the Jews as much as we did . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What the Government buy matters as much as what they spend . |
| 11 | And it was his ability to work with the engineers as much as his speed which decided Frank Williams to sign Hill as partner to No 1 driver Alain Prost . |
| 12 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 13 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 14 | The Puritans frowned on the adorning of wells and springs as much as they did on adorning maypoles , and the tradition of decorating wells with flowers and green branches at the spring festivals , or on the feast of the patron saint of the well , died out . |
| 15 | A BRC spokeswoman said : ‘ Retailers have already cut their costs as much as they can . |
| 16 | Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information . |
| 17 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 18 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 19 | Yeah the attitude is very much about I respect your rights as an individual , you 've got equal rights as much as I have . |
| 20 | Obviously , he was now quite a celebrity , and in 1948 was signed up by Radcliffe in the Central Lancashire League ; he stayed with them until the end of 1952 , set batting records which have never been beaten , even by Sobers , and was hugely popular , for his personal qualities as much as his cricketing skills . |
| 21 | Yeah but some are not , not so much 'im 'cos he do n't shed his feathers as much as 'im . |
| 22 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 23 | ‘ We will do all we can to help customers as much as we can , especially those on low incomes , and we want to take more time during the course of the year to evaluate the charge in detail . |
| 24 | There is some concern , however , that we are failing to capture the attention of the under-25s as much as our long term future demands , and steps are currently under way to improve matters . ’ |
| 25 | Of course , the genial Ulsterman is an entertainer as well as a sportsman these days and the audience was there for his jokes as much as his trick shots . |
| 26 | to explain your anxieties and feelings as much as you want |
| 27 | Uncertainty is the enemy of marketers as much as it is of City markets . |
| 28 | He left no-one in any doubt that the player 's off-field activities as much as his suspect knees forced his exit from Old Trafford . |
| 29 | Discs must fall out with their artists as much as anyone else , I reason , but this idea produces the Go ! |
| 30 | In 1957 the biggest three US car firms sold 11.6 times as much as their three biggest rivals ; in 1972 the difference was 4.2 times . |