Example sentences of "much as [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a case the mortgagee acts for the benefit of the equity of redemption as much as for that of the security . |
| 2 | For Conservative governments as much as for Labour , it was far more common that the inadequacy of resources for allocation to programmes with limited political appeal , in competition with spending programmes by other departments holding out more evident social or financial benefits , set the limits on what could be done . |
| 3 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 4 | The world needs it , for peacekeeping duties as much as for diplomatic and economic ones . |
| 5 | The history of the generations which preceded the French Revolution almost as much as of that which followed it must be written in terms of warfare . |
| 6 | Within the government political judgements on the issue were somewhat confused — Cripps , in particular , saw devaluation ‘ as an act of foreign policy quite as much as of economic policy ’ [ ibid , 141 ] ; and the final decision was made by three junior ministers outside the Cabinet . |
| 7 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 8 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 9 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 10 | Ironically , this burden is falling upon Japan 's efficient export industries as much as on inefficient , over-regulated ones . |
| 11 | Therefore , you need a system to be in place at club level just as much as at international level ’ . |
| 12 | In pre-1914 Europe , therefore , almost as much as at any time in the past , the making and , to a lesser extent , the conduct of foreign policy by the great states remained in the hands of a small , sometimes very small , number of individuals who were effectively uncontrolled by the peoples for whom they acted . |
| 13 | For him , regulationism meant adherence to the values and ordered hierarchy of the governing elite as much as to sanitary reform . |
| 14 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 15 | This is as much unnecessary as it is undesirable ; critical evaluation can lead to positive assessments , just as much as to negative ones . |
| 16 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 17 | This applies to this book as much as to any other . |
| 18 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 19 | Treatment has to be directed at this state of mind as much as to restoring body weight . |
| 20 | The reasons for using video playback in the classroom apply to homemade materials as much as to published materials . |
| 21 | These are of interest to horticulturalists and gardeners , as much as to those who come to see the animals . |
| 22 | This imperative applies to both employers and employees as much as to those Christians at work in a secular context . |
| 23 | That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care . |
| 24 | When someone talks to us , we receive as much as over two-thirds of the information through tone of voice and body language . |
| 25 | For , as we noted , the association of particular accents ( realized by proportions of phonological variables ) with particular social or geographical communities is generally not part of an intentional message ( Labov ( 1972a ) argues that such variables are only very partially under conscious control ) , nor are such social significances associated with linguistic forms by arbitrary synchronic convention so much as by regular historical and social process . |
| 26 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 27 | That is welcomed by those who work in the public service as much as by those who use it . |
| 28 | This dynamic process of class reproduction is also known by the term ‘ class structuration ’ , again an idea drawing attention to the fact that class exists by virtue of the creative agency of social actors as much as by any determination of the workings of the economic system . |
| 29 | The advice given by these advisers would properly have been guided by expediency as much as by any rules of interpretation and as such can not be taken to represent a body of thought about dreaming . |
| 30 | But this was because the outside world insisted on ostracising them at least as much as by any choice of their own . |