Example sentences of "[noun sg] so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 2 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 3 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 4 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 5 | While a strict Freudian interpretation of the function of dreaming would not necessarily imply that it preserved sanity so much as sleep , the neo-Freudians had developed the notion that during dreams conflicts were resolved , giving dreams a purpose in maintaining psychic equilibrium . |
| 6 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 7 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 8 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 9 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 10 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 11 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 12 | The recording catches the players rather forcefully , and the balance between guitar and string quartet is not always well managed : that is not the engineer 's fault so much as Boccherini 's who did not always judge texture as well as he might . |
| 13 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 14 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |
| 15 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 16 | She says that her concern is not with raising consciousness so much as approximating , in performance , to the public turmoil and private suffering caused by Aids . |
| 17 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 18 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 19 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 20 | The emphasis in the Lincolnshire scheme and in LMS under the 1988 Education Reform Act is not merely on financial management so much as the management of the total school resource . |
| 21 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 24 | Besides , it was not the general 's assassination so much as that of the emperor a year later which was vital . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 27 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 28 | Thus his erotic imagining of the usurping male is not the eruption of repressed homosexual desire so much as the fantasized , fearful convergence of identification and desire , precipitated by an actual convergence of their respective objects . |
| 29 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 30 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |