Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 2 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 3 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 4 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 5 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 7 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 8 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 9 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 10 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 11 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 12 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 13 | And where Freud has been integrated with , with the social sciences , interestingly enough , what 's been integrated is not the black books so much as Freud 's writings on child development and other issues , apart from those in these books . |
| 14 | Tonight , Dada and that little girl , whose company he had so much dreaded , had their heads nearly touching as they bent towards each other , she asking , he elaborating . |
| 15 | Mr Bergg said the Liberal Democrates would discourage the use of cars as much as possible . |
| 16 | The company can mend its ways and make cars as reliable as any of its competitors ' , but the reputation lingers on . |
| 17 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 18 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 19 | In the circumstances of the Occupation , Japan experienced a growing emphasis on material advancement and a wave of foreign influences as great as , if not greater than , anything in the Meiji period . |
| 20 | A player who weaves together the music of his Brazilian roots with influences as diverse as those of Harry ‘ Sweets ’ Edison and Miles Davis , he has now produced three albums of his own and established a distinctive voice in the straight-ahead idiom . |
| 21 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
| 22 | Of course , as the sidebands build up , they burn their own holes in the gain and refractive-index spectra , and it is not difficult to envisage the development of pulse shapes as complex as those of Fig. 7.6 , or , indeed , period-doubling and chaos in the pulse train : compare the discussion on passive resonators . |
| 23 | Sleek and stylish eternal bands of gold in shapes as timeless as your love |
| 24 | These newly industrialized countries have , in turn , sharply changed the degree of competition in world trade faced by UK manufacturers in sectors as varied as clothing and shipbuilding . |
| 25 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 26 | Like its English cognate , imagination , however , it is rich in connotations and operates differently in the different conceptual frameworks of the different authors who use it ( authors as varied as Sartre , Bachelard , Barthes , Lacan , Castoriadis , Althusser ) . |
| 27 | There are also characters present from works by authors as diverse as Homer , Clarice Lispector , Mark Twain , Milan Kundera , and Eugène Sue . |
| 28 | ‘ This is my window , ’ she added and tossed a haughty look to the rest of the room as if to say , ‘ Are foreigners as stupid as shit , or what ? ’ |
| 29 | In a single school term she had once sent to private sanatoriums as many as four boys and two girls with a weakness of the lungs . |
| 30 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |