Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 2 | While a strict Freudian interpretation of the function of dreaming would not necessarily imply that it preserved sanity so much as sleep , the neo-Freudians had developed the notion that during dreams conflicts were resolved , giving dreams a purpose in maintaining psychic equilibrium . |
| 3 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 4 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 5 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 6 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 7 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 8 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 9 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |
| 10 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 11 | She says that her concern is not with raising consciousness so much as approximating , in performance , to the public turmoil and private suffering caused by Aids . |
| 12 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 13 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 14 | Labour ( ‘ the only party that can deliver ’ ) has failed the Scottish electorate as much as has the SNP . |
| 15 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 16 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 17 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 18 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 19 | Understandably there is reluctance within the authorities to diagnose a child under 5 as having a mental handicap , and there is a move to relax the criteria to include children with developmental delay amongst those eligible for funding . |
| 20 | The rain fell almost horizontally , its bite as sharp as darts . |
| 21 | But there will never be an exercise as good as squats for working all of the muscles together . |
| 22 | In addition , husbands tend to see their participation in domestic work very much as helping their wife rather than the assumption of definite and perhaps permanent responsibility for some domestic duties . |
| 23 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 24 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 25 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 26 | It that 's true of a group as conspicuous as hornbills , what does it say about the fate of the great majority of ‘ unglamorous ’ animals on the planet ? |
| 27 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 28 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 29 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 30 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |