Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 3 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 4 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 5 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
| 6 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 7 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
| 8 | Now the Brentnall Street premises the club 's fourth headquarters do n't have so much as a bike stand . |
| 9 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 10 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
| 11 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
| 12 | But whatever you do , do n't give him so much as a cough sweet ! ’ |
| 13 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 14 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 15 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
| 16 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
| 17 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 18 | The gates to this were kept permanently locked but there was a less conspicuous entrance , hardly more than a mud road , amongst the trees a hundred yards along . |
| 19 | It was very small , hardly more than a box room , with a single high window . |
| 20 | One may doubt whether this was ever more than a schoolboy game . |
| 21 | She was clearly more than a shop assistant . |
| 22 | Though formerly something of a manufacturer , God is clearly rather more than a management guru . |
| 23 | Although it is often treated as a little more than a menu system , the Windows Program Manager is a flexible organising tool for the Windows environment . |
| 24 | When news of a flourishing Swedish house scene began to break 18 months ago , it looked like being little more than a PR scam based around the fact that Neneh Cherry 's half-sister Titiyo could sing and came from Stockholm . |
| 25 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 26 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
| 27 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 30 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |