Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] much [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 3 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 4 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 5 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 6 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 7 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 8 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 9 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 10 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 11 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 12 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 13 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 14 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 15 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 16 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 17 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 18 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 19 | And also , bear in mind that , we can argue this is divisional problems as much as a headquarters C A problem those members of staff are owned by division . |
| 20 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 21 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 22 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 23 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 24 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 25 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 26 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 27 | Fluid intake too , in the form of wine , beer , spirits , and a cup of tea , serves a social role as much as a biological one . |
| 28 | On its own terms , his argument is virtually irrefutable : since grandeur was not a definable objective so much as a means of keeping the flame of national ambition alight , it could never really fail . |
| 29 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 30 | You know he 's a farmer as much as a singer ? |