Example sentences of "much as anything [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
2 | They do not , however , deal with a phenomenon that is doing as much as anything to undermine the profitability of televised baseball : the rise of two cable superstations , Ted Turner 's WTBS and the Tribune Group 's WGN . |
3 | I subsequently bumped into him ( and most of the others ) in the otiose round of committees during the 1960s which did as much as anything to quench the white heat of the revolution . |
4 | Beyond the immediate challenge of German U-Boat warfare , France 's resolute defence of Verdun probably did as much as anything to pave the way , emotionally , to the United States ' entry into the war in April 1917 . |
5 | In similar fashion the expansion of European sovereignty overseas , which as much as anything marked the onset of the modern age , was attended by substantial accessions of gold . |