Example sentences of "much as [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia , for their meat as much as for their feathers and hides . |
| 2 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |
| 3 | It was for his style as much as for his opinions that mossadeq became notorious in the West . |
| 4 | Thomas seemed to be succumbing to Sylvie 's charms as much as to her narrative . |
| 5 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |
| 6 | Afterwards he reflected on the preacher 's dilemma : ‘ If he is a strong man , the possessor of popular gifts , he will be treated with plenty of consideration ; but the consideration is not due to his office so much as to his personal qualities . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , for goodness sake ! ’ exclaimed Helen , maddened by the recalcitrance of the meat as much as by her brother . |
| 8 | Gomez had earned his status through the calm weight of his personality as much as by his physical strength and the inevitable accuracy of his firepower . |
| 9 | So I am constrained by my material world — the practicalities of my material circumstances — just as much as by my physical world . |
| 10 | What do you think you 're doing coming in here without so much as by your leave ? ’ |
| 11 | He draws and paints from his flayed nerves as much as from his baulked emotions . |
| 12 | Malcolm was followed by his red-haired brother William ‘ the Lion ’ ( from the beast on his standard as much as from his personal courage ) , instigator of the first of so many attempts over the centuries to form a binding union with France against the English . |
| 13 | In this , as much as in its expectation of the proximity of the event and of the brave new world that the event would introduce , Marx 's vision was as millenarian as Owen 's . |
| 14 | The CAP is significant in what it represents as much as in its own failings . |
| 15 | Louis was a man to whom error was unforgivable , in himself as much as in his associates or employees . |