Example sentences of "so [det] as a [noun] [noun] " 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 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
7 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
8 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
9 | Now the Brentnall Street premises the club 's fourth headquarters do n't have so much as a bike stand . |
10 | 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 : |
11 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
12 | 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 " . |
13 | But whatever you do , do n't give him so much as a cough sweet ! ’ |
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 | 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 . |
16 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
17 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
18 | 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 . |