Example sentences of "[verb] so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 2 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 3 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 4 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 5 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 6 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 7 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 8 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 9 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 10 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 11 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 12 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 13 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 14 | And you yourself made it clear to me that you would not stomach so much as one more day , if we could but be induced to open a way of escape for you . |
| 15 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 16 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 19 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 20 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 21 | This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase . |
| 22 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 23 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 24 | it is not just what motivates so much as what motivates and how it might be achieved . |
| 25 | On the social issue , Hughes notes the recent concern that girls may not benefit so much as boys from using computers . |
| 26 | Things seemed so much as before . |
| 27 | The iron grip Guy had used to subdue her had relaxed into a hold that now cradled rather than constrained , and yet she could n't lift so much as a finger to defend herself , could barely summon the will to press her face harder against the bed in a futile attempt to escape that warm , spine-tingling touch . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |