Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
| 2 | What prompts a sanctioning rather than a compliance response is not who does the law enforcement so much as the sort of behaviour which is subject to control . |
| 3 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet it is true that , although Foucault 's " counter-sciences " , by repeatedly demonstrating the apparently endless variety of what is humanly possible , have constantly served to enlarge the scope of " us " at the expense of " other " , they have , at the same time , ended up by making the generality man so imprecise as to be almost meaningless . |
| 6 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |