Example sentences of "[prep] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 2 | She reached out and caught it without so much as wobbling . |
| 3 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 4 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 7 | She brought from under her shawl an untidy sheaf of documents and handed them to Emily without so much as bobbing a polite curtsy . |
| 8 | And he stops at cafés , for a sit-down with a beer or an apéritif or a coffee , without so much as noticing the prices , or whether it is too near lunchtime . |
| 9 | Now Stuart , you should know , is rancidly smug about finding his way through London without so much as crossing a bus-route — his driving is all Kilburn cut-throughs and dinky dives along back-streets tumescent with sleeping policemen . |
| 10 | disorder which makes her frightened to so much as giggle , but break |
| 11 | The polytechnic staff were now on a work to rule , though only at local level — a vote or so at national level having gone against them in spite of a good deal of cooking of the agenda — and she was , as she said , too busy getting a strike fund to so much as think of earning , let alone working ; let alone getting to bed before Bernard had long since fallen asleep . |
| 12 | Everything but the free flow of natural selection is disagreeable to so much as contemplate , but the planet sinks beneath the weight of us , stinks because of the shit of us ; if we do n't do something we all go down together , gasping for air , for heaven 's blessing . |