Example sentences of "much as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’ |
| 2 | Like most happy-go-lucky people , she had a good many minor misfortunes , which amused her as much as everyone else . |
| 3 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 4 | Yeah but some are not , not so much 'im 'cos he do n't shed his feathers as much as 'im . |
| 5 | Jake gazed across the dim dunes again , still gripping her in his arm : and it felt now as if he held her just for comfort — his own , perhaps , as much as hers . |
| 6 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 7 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 8 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 9 | An array of instances , almost of specimens , is set before us ; and we are invited to make our own observations , inferring from them as much as they will bear . |
| 10 | Mr Bland said that if LWT manages to retain its franchise , the new shares will be worth three times as much as they are now . |
| 11 | At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals . |
| 12 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |
| 13 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 14 | Both cheeses are slightly unusual in as much as they are made with cooked curds that have been heated in the whey for about 30min before being drained . |
| 15 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 16 | There , a gale of competition swept Britain from a Soviet-style queueing system to one in which people could quickly and conveniently borrow as much as they were able to service , from any of a wide choice of lenders . |
| 17 | Managers might not borrow as much as they should , on paper , if they want to retain a large reserve of borrowing power in case of problems . |
| 18 | After decades of trying to become big competitors , they were determined to learn as much as they could as suppliers to America 's Boeing , the world 's biggest civil-aircraft maker , and then to stand on their own . |
| 19 | Now that capital and entrepreneurship are free to cross borders , the old trade measures may conceal as much as they reveal . |
| 20 | Some of the advisers brought into government by Mrs Thatcher disliked the old-style Conservatism almost as much as they detested socialism . |
| 21 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 22 | the rich as much as they are able to pay . |
| 23 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 24 | It is not worth our while because we can not redeem them for as much as they would get for five- or 10-dollar bills . ’ |
| 25 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 26 | Richard Baxter was drawn to the people of Kidderminster as much as they were drawn to him . |
| 27 | They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like . |
| 28 | These exquisitely preserved gastropods are largely free of the enclosing matrix , and look now much as they would have done 60 million years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ A bit , but not as much as they might be considering the rain we 've had , ’ Charlie answered . |
| 30 | Japanese engineers are also adding some flourishes , such as steel rods inside the rubber bearings to prevent the isolators deforming too much as they absorb vibrations . |