Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] much as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L will shift to the right in diagram ( a ) , and thus r will not fall as much as illustrated . |
| 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 | Thus investment ( diagram ( b ) ) and income ( diagram ( c ) ) will not rise as much as illustrated either . |