Example sentences of "[adv] much [conj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 2 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 3 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 4 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 5 | Without so much as an order , the line parted , one and two , and flowed on past Fred White without even breaking step . |
| 6 | When I first approached The Smiths in regard to this book , although treated with sympathy from their manager , I was waved aside without so much as an acknowledgement . |
| 7 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 8 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 9 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 10 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 11 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 12 | Andrew Motion 's recent poem ‘ Inland ’ describes how a society , as much as an ecology , was overturned by drainage projects in the seventeenth-century fens . |
| 13 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 14 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 15 | Previous SDS-sequestration studies using synthetic oligonucleotides have suggested that a proximal G or distal C increases the rate of dissociation from GC sites by as much as an order of magnitude [ 19 ] . |
| 16 | Elephants lack these conspicuous folds , but they too are well defended against attack by their powerful , leathery skin which is sometimes as much as an inch thick . |
| 17 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 18 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 19 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 20 | Business analysis should be looked upon as a two-way exercise — an opportunity to inform , help and convince , as much as an opportunity to find out about the organisation . |
| 21 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 22 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 23 | Graham finished in a time of 10hrs 07mins 40secs , not bad considering the terror canoe section , but this season he is convinced that he can knock as much as an hour off that effort with more intense training and kinder weather . |
| 24 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 25 | It was an exercise in self-congratulation from the leader of the self-proclaimed Land of Liberty as much as an expression of solidarity with the oppressed . |
| 26 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 27 | Karelius , who had never disliked the French as much as an Englishman should , felt himself warming to his country 's enemies . |
| 28 | But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses . |
| 29 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |
| 30 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |