Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 2 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 3 | I think that nowhere so much as in London do people wear — to the eye of observation — definite signs of the sort of people they may be . |
| 4 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 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 | It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality , but not so much as to overwhelm . |
| 7 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er she had but not so much as father . |
| 10 | But not so much as the readers and staff of Gandalf 's Garden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It blew very hard , but not so much as to prevent Messrs. Gould and Gunn going on shore . |
| 13 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 14 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 15 | If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ? |