Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] much [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 2 | It does not arise so much when the doubt lies between ( a ) consent and ( b ) no decision . |
| 3 | If the brightness backward mask follows soon enough after the target and is bright enough , it will reduce contrast in the target display so much that the target contours will not be discriminable from their background , and so the target will not be identifiable . |
| 4 | Gravity lightened so much that the trio almost felt afloat . |
| 5 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 9 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 10 | The nature of the investor 's interest matters as much as the length of his nose . |
| 11 | A year before his death he was still reminding Du Camp about his surprise arrival with the young phenomenon , and still laughing as much as the day it had happened . |
| 12 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 13 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 16 | There was a period when only McQueen and Dustin were getting their per diem allowance , something they did not need as much as the rest of the cast and crew . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If we can achieve so much before the demonstration is even held then much more is possible . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 20 | It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 25 | According to Motability , adaptations to enable severely handicapped people to travel by car in their wheelchairs often cost as much as the vehicle itself . |
| 26 | She might have said as much if a cat had died . |
| 27 | That is a great improvement , and I hope very much that the Commission will soon understand that headage limits do not reduce overproduction but merely discriminate against some of the poorest parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | In most cases this does n't matter too much as the speed of the machine can be controlled by software instead . |
| 29 | it does n't matter very much if the story ‘ really ’ happened . |
| 30 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |