Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv] [det] [subord] [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 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 ) .
3 ‘ My dear girl , are you sure you 're not recalling rather more than happened ?
4 The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route .
5 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 .
6 He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The Naked Lunch does not end so much as tail off entropically into verbal fragments .
10 Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up .
11 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 .
12 Thus investment ( diagram ( b ) ) and income ( diagram ( c ) ) will not rise as much as illustrated either .
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