Example sentences of "much as [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned away to hide her own tears , and spoke for herself as much as for Clarissa . |
| 2 | For modern anthropologists , quite as much as for Marx and Engels , forms of family and marriage are integral parts of the social system and co-vary with the overall system . |
| 3 | This version of the story of the development of the state 's role in social welfare can be applied to a number of industrialized nations-to the United States , to most of the other countries of western and northern Europe and to Australasia — as much as to Britain . |
| 4 | However , a good fish meal with wine will cost as much as in England , and eating out is a lot more expensive than Greece ( though a lot better ! ) . |
| 5 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 6 | Mr Ceausescu is certainly detested in Moscow as much as in London or Washington . |
| 7 | I think that nowhere so much as in London do people wear — to the eye of observation — definite signs of the sort of people they may be . |
| 8 | If , for example , a firm with its headquarters in London is running manufacturing plants in the UK , Third World countries and elsewhere , if it is using parts and even designs originating abroad , if its shares are owned by people and institutions of all nationalities and are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange as much as in London , why should its output and its profits be counted as part of the United Kingdom economy ? |
| 9 | The tacit assumption in Alexandria and Antioch , just as much as in Athens , was the superiority of Greek language and manners . |
| 10 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 11 | They are very sensitive to cold air , as much as in Nux vomica which also has the aching bones and wants to be covered and in a hot room . |
| 12 | 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 . |