Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] much as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the experiences of the South-West Division would seem to argue against the thesis of this column : that national selectors , in England as much as in Wales , should build their teams more around clubs and less around people . |
| 2 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
| 3 | Mr Ceausescu is certainly detested in Moscow as much as in London or Washington . |
| 4 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 5 | His old eyes behind smudged spectacles talked to the seagulls and the North Sea as much as to me . |