Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 2 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 3 | it 's back again to the old fashioned set , I mean I think nothing looks so untidy as to joined writing |
| 4 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 5 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 6 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 7 | Nobody had so much as breathed the word ‘ Wages ’ . |
| 8 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 11 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 12 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 13 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 14 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
| 15 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 16 | No one had so much as noticed them there . |
| 17 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 18 | Er I think that 's wonderful , wonderful work they 've done , er they 're absolutely dedicated , they 've so much as spent all their time in the last four years working here . |
| 19 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 20 | Up until the last minute of press day , our lines are always open , the overworked , underpaid hordes of YTS types we use to compile the stories thrashed to within an inch of their lives with our old school ties if they miss so much as one happening event . |
| 21 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Pooley , ‘ it is conceivable that it was the work of some servant or ex-servant with a grudge against the committee , but it seems so unlikely as to be hardly worth considering . |
| 23 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 24 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 25 | The complex , serpentine weaving of colours emphasised his impressive shoulders , and in faded old Levis and scuffed desert boots he looked so wonderful as he lounged on the sofa that she could have thrown herself in his arms there and then . |
| 26 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |
| 27 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 28 | it is not just what motivates so much as what motivates and how it might be achieved . |