Example sentences of "much as [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | She turned away to hide her own tears , and spoke for herself as much as for Clarissa . |
| 6 | Ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia , for their meat as much as for their feathers and hides . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The world needs it , for peacekeeping duties as much as for diplomatic and economic ones . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This goes for women as much as for men ; street make-up is not suitable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The AFPFL members of the Council therefore came up with an announcement intended for public consumption as much as for adoption by the Council . |
| 14 | In such a case the mortgagee acts for the benefit of the equity of redemption as much as for that of the security . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The short messages from home , the frustrating glimpses of Jill and my parents on video still spurred me to hold on , for them as much as for me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was for his style as much as for his opinions that mossadeq became notorious in the West . |
| 19 | Lucker asks this question for himself as much as for me . |
| 20 | as much as for the brutal snapping |
| 21 | Edward Hulmes , who has contributed one volume to the Effective Teacher Series on Education and Cultural Diversity ( Hulmes 1989 ) has many times noted that RE is for teachers as much as for pupils . |
| 22 | Are universities being cut as much as for example primary schools and secondary schools ? |
| 23 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 24 | A century ago Scheveningen was a place of painters as much as of fishermen , and not far off the tram route you can still see exactly what the artists saw . |
| 25 | It was a battle of social leadership as much as of ideas . |
| 26 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 27 | Accidents of history , as much as of geography , had played their part in making the village . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |