Example sentences of "[noun sg] as much as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As for yourself , syphilis can affect the mind as much as the body . ’ |
| 5 | The clumsy phrasing lodged in Blanche 's mind as much as the content . |
| 6 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 10 | And Daine 's neural dysfunctions have shaped his Dream as much as the externals he took from his old vids . ’ |
| 11 | The system challenges the management as much as the staff and this is a vital element in its acceptability . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The dons resented their punishment as much as the doctors — but neither can fairly be described as radical on that account . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A scene of organised chaos greeted visitors to the festival , with games going on amid much cheering and urging from excited parents and coaches , many apparently enjoying the occasion as much as the players themselves . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is doubtful if anyone in sport — let alone his main rivals Stephen Hendry , the 7–4 favourite , Steve Davis and defending champion John Parrott — craves a title as much as the mercurial left-hander does the honour of being king of the green baize . |
| 26 | Development is not viewed simply as the product of the child-rearing regime adopted by parents ; it is an interactive process , where the child influences the mother 's behaviour as much as the mother the child . |
| 27 | It was the implications of his presence as much as the sight of him that heated her skin and caused her heart to thunder as her mind leapt treacherously forward to the night that lay ahead of them . |
| 28 | Active methods of treatment for venous ulcers do work , but the ‘ Hawthorn ’ effect must be remembered , in that part of any improvement is due to the change as much as the method , or ‘ a change is a s good as a rest ’ . |
| 29 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 30 | At present , black comedy 's screen coverage is limited to The Real McCoy — whose shaky sets and second-rate scripts hinder the scene 's advancement as much as the very presence of the show helps it . |