Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 2 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 3 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 4 | But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions . |
| 5 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 6 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 7 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 8 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 9 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Not so much as a stick of rock . ’ |
| 12 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 13 | It is come , I know not how , to be taken for granted , by many persons , that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is , now at length , discovered to be fictitious . |
| 14 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 15 | ‘ It wo n't take long , ’ he persisted without so much as a hint of apology . |
| 16 | During the Olympics there was n't so much as a hint of nookie between her and her hunk . |
| 17 | No commercially-made version gives so much as a hint of its true nature . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 20 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 21 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 22 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 23 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 24 | A candidate will be accused of canvassing for votes on another 's territory , or of fighting the election on his own behalf and without so much as a mention of his running-mates or even of his party . |
| 25 | Meetings often do not have real objectives ( see page 119 ) so much as a list of activities . |
| 26 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 27 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 28 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 29 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 30 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |