Example sentences of "[adv] [det] as [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 3 | With a joy to his flight that evidently surprised and alarmed them he turned and stooped towards them at speed , not to attack them so much as show them that he was a golden eagle and could fly where he pleased . |
| 4 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 5 | No one had so much as noticed them there . |
| 6 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |
| 7 | ‘ If I so much as catch you smiling at another woman — ’ |
| 8 | I felt naked and horribly vulnerable , like a snail with its shell off ; every nerve was close to the surface ; I thought if anyone so much as touched me , I 'd scream . |
| 9 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 10 | I do n't anyway , would n't care if I never so much as sniffed it again . |
| 11 | Without his so much as kissing her , a raging desire had seized her , and she longed to be in his arms , in his bed , in his heart . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Never so much as mentioned it . |
| 14 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 15 | It does n't frighten you so much as remind you where you are , " explained a young Barnsley miner . |
| 16 | She flicked a look at Travis as , without so much as asking her to hold on , Mr Green went away to tell Rosemary that she was wanted on the phone . |
| 17 | When the big day comes the Doom Diver prepares by strapping on his wings which he makes himself ( no Doom Diver trusts any other Goblin to make his wings and gets very angry if anyone else should even so much as touch them ) . |
| 18 | Sign systems do not name the world so much as order it . |
| 19 | If I so much as see you in this section during the flight … ’ |
| 20 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 21 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 22 | He enjoyed re-reading sermons almost as much as writing them . |
| 23 | It would appear that the pretrial investigation determined the accused 's fate without as much as affording him a right of effective participation in the process . |
| 24 | ‘ You as much as told me , the other night , that you did n't have any experience . ’ |
| 25 | He was so close she could feel her own name as much as hear it , and she closed her eyes , gripped by a longing more powerful than anything she 'd ever known before . |
| 26 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 27 | When he spoke , it seemed to her that he was listening to his own thoughts as much as conveying them to her . |
| 28 | That 's as much as to tell me that you would be hovering round me like a vulture , waiting till the breath was out of my body , that you might go and marry someone else . ’ |