Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] so [det] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the foregoing arguments have suggested , control is not imposed so much as negotiated or bargained between parties who both have considerable power resources ( cf. Aharoni 1981a : 1342 ) . |
| 2 | The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route . |
| 3 | In Ernest and Elizabeth 's awful old kitchen , which had last had a re-fit in 1926 and in which Cecilia herself would not have so much as peeled a potato , though nothing would have made her say so , Tina was baking a birthday cake for Bienvida . |
| 4 | He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him . |
| 5 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 6 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 7 | The Naked Lunch does not end so much as tail off entropically into verbal fragments . |
| 8 | Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up . |
| 9 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |