Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 2 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 3 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 4 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 5 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 6 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 7 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 8 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 9 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 10 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 11 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 12 | The iron grip Guy had used to subdue her had relaxed into a hold that now cradled rather than constrained , and yet she could n't lift so much as a finger to defend herself , could barely summon the will to press her face harder against the bed in a futile attempt to escape that warm , spine-tingling touch . |
| 13 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 14 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 15 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 16 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 17 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 18 | As it is , women hold barely more than a quarter of all managerial and administrative posts , yet make up nearly half the workforce . |
| 19 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 20 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 21 | However , before anyone could utter so much as a syllable , the air was rent by the beating sound of an approaching helicopter . |
| 22 | And before she could utter so much as a squeak he clapped his hand over her mouth , swung her into his arms , and they were out of the flat and into his car without so much as a curtain twitching . |
| 23 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 24 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 25 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 26 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 27 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 28 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 29 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 30 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |