Example sentences of "[adv] much as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 2 | For the duration of the war , British and American diplomats performed a nerve-racking balancing act , providing just enough credit and material aid ( especially grain and petroleum ) to prevent Franco from going over completely to the Axis , but not so much as to enable him to become strong enough to dispense with maintaining relations with them . |
| 3 | This is also partly the reason why in Adorno 's theory music in a sense takes on too much autonomy , so much as to create a danger of a relapse into idealism . |
| 4 | The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media . |
| 5 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 8 | It is mentioned here because encounters with such forms of suffering may distress practitioners so much as to block off their own capacity to deal sensitively and effectively with the people concerned . |
| 9 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |
| 10 | It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality , but not so much as to overwhelm . |
| 11 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 14 | Most people do not want to vote in a right-wing government so much as to get rid of a discredited and deeply unpopular Socialist government . |
| 15 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 18 | It blew very hard , but not so much as to prevent Messrs. Gould and Gunn going on shore . |
| 19 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 20 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 21 | The rhetoric of ‘ community ’ , however , often serves to obscure as much as to clarify the changes that have occurred . |
| 22 | Because plans set performance standards and create expectations in the political controllers , they are used to manipulate the external environment as much as to generate internal management commitment . |
| 23 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 24 | Besides the particular passions or impulses directed at objects other than pleasure , a human being has ; more general desire that he should enjoy as much pleasure or happiness as possible , during his life as a whole , which is as much as to say , a desire that the totality of his impulse ; directed at objects other than his own pleasure should receive as much satisfaction as possible . |
| 25 | As much as to say , well if you need a lift home , just let me know . |
| 26 | He gave her a cynical look , as much as to say that he only half believed her . |
| 27 | So he said he did n't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we 'll go to the Regal tonight . |
| 28 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 29 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 30 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |