Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 6 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 7 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 17 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You know he 's a farmer as much as a singer ? |
| 24 | A laser produces a beam which is easier to focus into a monomode fibre because its light does not spread in frequency as much as a LED . |
| 25 | It was a small army as much as a large family . |
| 26 | A relief as much as a pleasure to see him emerge with credit , both as director and performer . |
| 27 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 28 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
| 29 | ‘ A GOOD review can damage your performance as much as a bad one . |
| 30 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |