Example sentences of "[adv] [det] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat . |
| 2 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 3 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 4 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 5 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 6 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 7 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 9 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 10 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 11 | Yes , now I would n't slur those quite so much as I would make that all legato . |
| 12 | Not so much as he thought he was . |
| 13 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 14 | It is n't a lack of the amorous , perhaps , so much as it is a completely different sense of the amorous to that which post-Christian man contains , to that which … the likes of Duncan , say , or myself may feel . |
| 15 | I mean your examination work , for in your other work you need no encouragement , for you like it so much as it is yourself finding expression in words . ’ |
| 16 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 17 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 18 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 19 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 20 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 21 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 22 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 23 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 24 | No it was just that as I say , I went off to town . |
| 25 | You bought it and bought it , that 's it , not same as they do with yeah with them looking for bloody sponsors unheard and them looking for bloody sponsors eh ? |
| 26 | But anyway I remember one time and it er I think it was Christmas time , and there was a German they brought Germans in just same as us you know Fritz . |
| 27 | Just same as mine int it ? |
| 28 | The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) . |
| 29 | They would n't want someone as little as her . |
| 30 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |