Example sentences of "so [det] [conj] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 2 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 3 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 4 | The two basic amino-terminal α-helices sit in the major groove so that they are perpendicular to one another on opposite sides of the DNA duplex ; they resemble nothing so much as a pair of short chopsticks . |
| 5 | But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions . |
| 6 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 7 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 8 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 9 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 10 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 11 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 12 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 13 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 14 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |
| 15 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 16 | All next day she called and she hunted , but no trace of her baby could she discover , not so much as a footprint on the sand . |
| 17 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 18 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 19 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 20 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Not so much as a stick of rock . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is come , I know not how , to be taken for granted , by many persons , that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is , now at length , discovered to be fictitious . |
| 24 | ‘ If you think I 'd dream of sharing so much as a blanket with you after that you 're crazy ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 27 | ‘ It wo n't take long , ’ he persisted without so much as a hint of apology . |
| 28 | During the Olympics there was n't so much as a hint of nookie between her and her hunk . |
| 29 | No commercially-made version gives so much as a hint of its true nature . ) |
| 30 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |