Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] much [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 3 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 4 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 5 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 10 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 11 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 12 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 13 | You know he 's a farmer as much as a singer ? |
| 14 | A laser produces a beam which is easier to focus into a monomode fibre because its light does not spread in frequency as much as a LED . |
| 15 | A relief as much as a pleasure to see him emerge with credit , both as director and performer . |
| 16 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 17 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
| 18 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |
| 19 | " If you give that little rat so much as a teaspoonful you 're the one who 'll know all about it when she soars into the air with buck , lep and kick . |
| 20 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 21 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 22 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 23 | Such a placing seems as likely to engender angry defensiveness as much as a will to improve . |
| 24 | The Basque house is an idea as much as a building . |
| 25 | For such people the European identity is a threat as much as a promise . |
| 26 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |
| 27 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
| 28 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 29 | As the title suggests it is an appeal as much as a painting , an appeal for a re-establishment of the link between human beings and the rest of nature . |