Example sentences of "much as [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since both hands are needed for the descent , as much as for the climb , one can not keep hold of any eggs that one finds . |
| 2 | I am fighting for them as much as for the shareholders . |
| 3 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |
| 4 | These territories were theoretically viewed as the third party beneficiaries of an international status designed with the objective of promoting international peace and security , as much as for the advancement of the territory and its inhabitants . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Circumspecte agatis deserves attention because of the circumstances which brought it about as much as for the harmony which it established in some controversial areas of justice . |
| 6 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |
| 7 | as much as for the brutal snapping |
| 8 | What is at once important to stress about the Council is the lasting caution , indeed conservatism , of the majority of its members and of their consultants , as much as of the curia and the popes . |
| 9 | Even the second movement of the Suite , which can sound merely hectic , has a musicality reinforcing the awareness that Schoenberg was thinking of the world of cabaret as much as of the classroom and counterpoint . |
| 10 | Rather , he means the workings of a live intelligence which draws on experience and intuition as much as on a more narrowly conceived logic . |
| 11 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 12 | Parish and Peacock ( 1954 ) calculated that twice as much was spent per capita by the five major social services on pensioners as on children , and three-and-a-half times as much as on the active population . |
| 13 | But not , but not as much as on the electrical systems . |
| 14 | It is evident that the figures and groups were set up and down the field , surely very much as on the Underworld vase ; only on this wall there were scores of figures and also certainly more indications of setting . |
| 15 | Some committee , board and panel chairmen acquired a reputation for being especially rigorous , and in some cases angry responses from institutions focussed on the alleged biases or eccentricities of panel members as much as on the nature of the judgments made about the courses . |
| 16 | Fear of the Communist " Trojan horse " was still present in the minds of the Executive , though it was now coupled with a desire to assert the Party 's independence from allies on the Right as much as on the Left . |
| 17 | The naturalistic fallacy is committed by the equation of intrinsic value with intrinsic properties and relational properties at the metaphysical , as much as at the natural , level . |
| 18 | We could argue , then , that recording comes at the culmination of one era as much as at the start of another , and that the blanket concepts of ‘ mass media ’ and ‘ mechanical reproduction ’ need opening up . |
| 19 | Robson Rhodes ' national head of audit , Bill Smith , believes that the fault lies with the professional bodies , as much as with the larger firms . |
| 20 | When , during the 1930s and 1940s , the concern was with the quantity as much as with the quality of population this particular objection carried little weight , although being drawn upon as a reason for not restricting a national scheme of family allowances to the working classes alone . |
| 21 | The issue is as much conceptual as empirical , having to do with the definition and measurement of handedness as much as with the demonstration of a hemisphere " dominance " effect . |
| 22 | That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on . |
| 23 | Wherever responsibility for the mistakes lay — and it lay with Churchill and the British as much as with the Free French — the failure was a colossal humiliation for de Gaulle , because it showed an imperial administration utterly loyal to Vichy and more than capable of repelling the Free French . |
| 24 | The producers cared about the songs as much as about the sketches . |
| 25 | Unlike the arrangements for the transfer of the Diploma in Art and Design , which involved a change to a degree award , there was no immediate programme of revalidation in this case , and a five-year review programme was introduced , with the intention of integrating the DMS into the work of the Council as much as considering the courses themselves . |
| 26 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 27 | The words took time to sink in — to herself as much as to the rest . |
| 28 | But his evidence does not read to his discredit nearly so much as to the discredit of the committee . |
| 29 | A gable roof is implied by such an arrangement and the number of posts may relate to the presence or absence of vertical side-walls as much as to the size and weight of the roof ( Figure 2.2 ) . |
| 30 | But theoretically , the significance was still greater : the traditional Western bar on the ordination of the married had always applied to the diaconate as much as to the priesthood ( and for the same initial reason : marriage involving the practice of sex was regarded as causing pollution ) . |