Example sentences of "much as [pron] [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's cos they 're student doctors , you know , they like to prescribe as much as they can for the students ! |
| 2 | What they believe in is that everybody out there is out to grab as much as they can for their own private interest and they 're prepared to meet them halfway on that . |
| 3 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 4 | At the other end of the spectrum , some farmers are so keen to pass on as much as they can to the next generation they leave themselves and their spouses with no capital or income on which to live . |
| 5 | Erm , I think we ought to make it very clear again , that we can now trace calls , and er , I hope the press are noting that and making as much as they can of it , because that 's the sort of thing that helps to remove malicious calls , which go which cost a lot of money , and a lot of time , and also put somebody else 's life in danger when an appliance has been called out to something that it 's not required for . |
| 6 | The Authority are pushing as much as they can on the scheme and there 's been no response to yesterday . |
| 7 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 8 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |
| 9 | In an analysis of council expenditure , E W Wordley told the FGRA that the majority intended to spend as much as they could on labour ; as a result , bankruptcy was imminent ( SE 27 September 20 ) . |
| 10 | Of course , people would do as much as they could on their own , partly because it was n't easy to send for a vet in a faraway place like Baldersdale , which did n't have many telephones , and partly because of the expense . |
| 11 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 12 | If development ceases , the pupils will not benefit as much as they should at a time in their education which will never be repeated and one which therefore could never be made up . |
| 13 | Because I want to do as much as we can during the holiday so that when you go back you you 're up there with the rest of them okay . |
| 14 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 15 | ‘ We have made it our duty to find out as much as we can about Natasha , so that if it comes to a point where we want to adopt her , we will have the documentation ready . ’ |
| 16 | We have no choice but to deduce as much as we can about the baking of the cake from studying what happens if we miss out a constituent , alter the temperature or cooking time or whatever … |
| 17 | So what we need to do is understand as much as we can of all pattern writing and notation methods , so that we may use all that is available to us in magazines , books , and so on . |
| 18 | Er so any clarification you can give about er er Mr er with Mr Potter 's comment that we would have to wait and see each one on its circumstances when we talking earlier about the industrial change of use makes me twitch , because it 's lack of precision which all of us are trying to eliminate as much as we can in this process . |
| 19 | A Foreign Office spokesman said : We always do as much as we can in such circumstances . |
| 20 | Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food . |
| 21 | The way things look now , Greece 's public sector is not going to be cut as much as it ought to be . |
| 22 | Life , as much as it would in such an uneventful place , carried on regardless . |
| 23 | While it has the advantage of putting slurry at plant root level where it can be used quickly , it can not bury the same volume of slurry or reduce the smell as much as it can with deep injection . |
| 24 | However , it is probably true to say that Darwin 's theory does not dominate biological thought as much as it used to . |
| 25 | ‘ Not quite as much as it used to be . |
| 26 | It all seemed to emphasise that , in the era of the All Ireland League , the Senior Cup just does n't matter as much as it used to . |
| 27 | What is the commitment like for display unit during the year I get the impression it 's not used as much as it used to be |
| 28 | It does n't seem to vanish as much as it used to . |
| 29 | Does n't seem to vanish as much as it used to , the Manifold , used to be dry in places most of the summer . |
| 30 | In a transfer the patient does as much as he can under instruction and with help from the carer , or he is able to transfer himself . |