Example sentences of "much as [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year . |
| 3 | Mothers enjoy protective and caring episodes in dealing with their children as much as they enjoy seeing them grow more independent Such episodes are a simple arid direct affirmation of the maternal role . |
| 4 | At one time , young professionals could borrow as much as they liked to buy their home , on the promise of their growing salary and sure prospects . |
| 5 | ‘ I have chosen seven men whose personalities will , I hope , interest other people as much as they have intrigued me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But over the years , his sales techniques have irritated as much as they have impressed , and he has been periodically banned from Celtic Park , Tynecastle and Fir Park . |
| 8 | As much as they need to get the job done . |
| 9 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
| 10 | We found Royston much as we had left it . |
| 11 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 12 | I really do feel she liked working here as much as we liked having her , and not only for her work ; she was such a nice person , so warm and lively . ’ |
| 13 | May they all long continue to enjoy working with us as much as we enjoy working with them . |
| 14 | However , as much as we have gained the initiative , there are still problems which face the disability arts movement and which need to be unravelled . |
| 15 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 16 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 17 | Some hon. Members will welcome the partial movement by the Secretary of State for Scotland in as much as we have had the enormous political death-bed confession that he will look at the Scottish situation . |
| 18 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 19 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 20 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 23 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | So these people are important to you , so it 's vitally important that you do n't let them down , because initially this business has a strange effect on you in as much as it seems to take over your mind , does n't it ? |
| 27 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 28 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 29 | The herring looked delicious but he was n't at all sure he was going to enjoy it as much as he 'd thought . |
| 30 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |