Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [det] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 3 | If he just so much as tried to make her budge … |
| 4 | Aunt Sarah did not so much as lift her head from the rug she was making , but Ruth watched the way the rug hook stabbed the canvas with increased speed and vigour , as if she wanted to hurt it , and Ruth knew that her aunt was as tense as she was herself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 7 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 8 | It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality , but not so much as to overwhelm . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 12 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 13 | Isambard had not so much as looked round . |
| 14 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 15 | It was the disgrace — Ethel and Ma not so much as allowed to speak to me … ’ |
| 16 | It blew very hard , but not so much as to prevent Messrs. Gould and Gunn going on shore . |
| 17 | I did not so much as flick a duster around the papers . |
| 18 | Whereas Gaston had managed to buy a small boat to go fishing , Marius had not so much as managed the purchase of two matching garden chairs . |
| 19 | ‘ If Daniel knocked on that door now , dying with the cold , I 'd not so much as cross the room . ’ |
| 20 | I may not so much as glance at all those handsome courtiers ! ’ |
| 21 | Not as many as had first come , of course . |
| 22 | The day was a resounding success and achieved some local press coverage if not as much as hoped for and of course there is the sponsorship money which the groups has raised for Amnesty . |
| 23 | Tax revenues had increased , but not as much as planned , the report said , criticizing the government 's failure to bring under control the increasing problem of tax evasion . |
| 24 | The design of the kite plays its part in determining the size of the flight envelope just as much as does wind strength . |
| 25 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 26 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 27 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 28 | Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’ |
| 29 | Now if they pull it off everybody 'll heave a sigh of relief and their methods will be forgiven , and if they do n't then it 'll all be Number 10 's fault and that would probably suit their book just as much as coming good on Plainsong itself . ’ |
| 30 | Most of us will be working part time and voluntary work will be considered work just as much as paid work and in that way we can distribute the enormous amount of work that needs to be done more evenly . |