Example sentences of "[vb pp] so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 12 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 13 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 16 | Similarly , with regard to the recent events in Cleveland ( DHSS , 1988a ) , it was not the good intentions of individual professionals that were criticised so much as their inability — or unwillingness — to operate as a team with a common purpose . |
| 17 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 18 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 19 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 20 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 21 | I am not drunk so much as queasy . |
| 22 | Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up . |
| 23 | 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 . |