Example sentences of "much as [pron] [verb] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Now that capital and entrepreneurship are free to cross borders , the old trade measures may conceal as much as they reveal . |
| 4 | As discussed in Chapter I government statistics obscure almost as much as they reveal the extent of poverty among women . |
| 5 | While the global system is most commonly classified in terms of First , Second and Third Worlds , and these are very convenient and for many purposes useful labels , it is certain that they conceal as much as they reveal . |
| 6 | However , these scores hide as much as they reveal . |
| 7 | For the next ten minutes or so she sat listening to these mature men chipping him , and he , her quiet Charlie , giving them back as much as they sent . |
| 8 | It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change . |
| 9 | Unrestricted access to industrialized country markets , the report said , would increase developing countries ' export earnings by US$55,000 million , as much as they received in aid [ see p. 37476 ] . |
| 10 | In fact the acts symbolised repression as much as they enabled it . |
| 11 | Among all these famous names there is one who knew them all , and who perhaps in his own way did as much as they to popularize , and incidentally to record , the Lake District at the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Members would like the people they represent to be able to watch as much as they wish of their MPs at work , and whenever they wish , without being dependent on the editorial and journalistic selections of the broadcasters . |
| 13 | But , the designers also learned much as they discovered the snags in their suggestions and the way they made them . |
| 14 | And loved it every bit as much as they adored their riverside home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As long as they 're in Pesth for the start of the journey south , they can do very much as they like , although none of them will be welcome at court . ’ |
| 17 | The future of the Daily Mirror is now in hock to City spivs and business tycoons — Hon. Gentlemen can shout as much as they like , but does the Prime Minister agree that citizens ' rights are best protected by pluralistic ownership of the press ? |
| 18 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
| 19 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 20 | As long as daimyo did not contravene the rulings of their nominal liege lord , the shogun , they could handle their own territory pretty much as they chose . |
| 21 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's just to say that it 's not going up as much as they thought . |
| 24 | They should be able to hold prices and they certainly should n't got up by as much as they thought they might have to put them up . |
| 25 | As for articles 52 and 221 , in as much as they refer to establishment and participation in capital , they can in any event apply only to persons and not to ships . |
| 26 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 27 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 28 | Exhausted , the young women did not talk much as they prepared for bed . |
| 29 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 30 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |