Example sentences of "much [prep] if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 2 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 3 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 4 | It felt too much as if she was shunting him off for her own convenience , even though she knew that it was the only sane and sensible thing to do . |
| 5 | If I went to Bristol it looked very much as if I would have to go without my prop . |
| 6 | It pays out three times as much as if I check out overseas . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds very much as if you were the one who was smitten , ’ Cora-Beth laughed . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 9 | And it looks very much as if he will not just be his mother 's champion — but also Britain 's , and maybe even the world 's . |
| 10 | particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it |