Example sentences of "much as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 2 | It is n't a lack of the amorous , perhaps , so much as it is a completely different sense of the amorous to that which post-Christian man contains , to that which … the likes of Duncan , say , or myself may feel . |
| 3 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 4 | Rupert Murdoch 's TV Guide could be in the strongest position , to scoop a lion 's share of the market , since it is already established , listing all satellite channels and as much as it is allowed in the way of BBC and ITV previews . |
| 5 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 6 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 7 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 8 | Consequently , sleep might become disturbed , particularly when , in addition , kidney function does not decrease at night as much as it once did . |
| 9 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 10 | IF AT long last , thanks to US pressure on Israel , there is real , discernible progress in the ‘ peace process , ’ the Intifada will probably continue much as it is . |
| 11 | If the railway is free to spark as much as it likes , farmers can pay them to reduce the sparks that locomotives emit . |
| 12 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 13 | The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine . |
| 14 | But even now , the average conceals as much as it reveals . |
| 15 | When this scheme was unveiled , it terrified laymen ( including many Tory MPs ) almost as much as it infuriated doctors . |
| 16 | I mean your examination work , for in your other work you need no encouragement , for you like it so much as it is yourself finding expression in words . ’ |
| 17 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 18 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 19 | Since , in many tribal societies , women were either pregnant or nursing during most of their fertile period of life , this monthly menstrual withdrawal did not affect women 's lives from month to month as much as it might seem to us today . |
| 20 | While it has the advantage of putting slurry at plant root level where it can be used quickly , it can not bury the same volume of slurry or reduce the smell as much as it can with deep injection . |
| 21 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 22 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 23 | Life , as much as it would in such an uneventful place , carried on regardless . |
| 24 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 25 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |
| 26 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 27 | The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense . |
| 28 | Life then was much as it is now . |
| 29 | The presumptuous way in which it has laid claim to the English rose as representing the party is indicative of its misplaced self-assurance that the people of ‘ our country ’ , as they repeatedly refer to England , wish to be governed by Labour as much as it wishes to govern us — an illusion emphatically dispelled last week . |
| 30 | Education is important in enabling rural people to organise and plan , as much as it is in ensuring that the urban majority understand the nature of rural problems and lend their support to solving them . |