Example sentences of "[adv] much as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 2 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 3 | The emphasis in the Lincolnshire scheme and in LMS under the 1988 Education Reform Act is not merely on financial management so much as the management of the total school resource . |
| 4 | In fact it 's not that the memory is lost , so much as the person ca n't get out the facts which are stored in the memory . |
| 5 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 6 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 7 | By this I do n't mean the need for physical help and practical advice so much as the longing for emotional reconciliation , a bonding with her . ’ |
| 8 | Marc took a step forward as if about to restrain his younger brother by sheer force , but again Sarella stepped between them , hands outstretched , grasping Peter by the arm , though she was careful not to touch so much as the edge of Marc 's sleeve . |
| 9 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 10 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |
| 11 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 12 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 13 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 14 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 15 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 16 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 17 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 18 | Ali returns to the kitchen , still barefoot from his prayers , moving so quietly I ca n't help but believe he 's trying not to disturb so much as the dust beneath his feet . |
| 19 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 20 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 21 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |
| 22 | It is not success in itself that matters , so much as the process of/earning how to create success , learning how to manifest our personal and global visions — learning how to live in a looking-glass world . |
| 23 | What prompts a sanctioning rather than a compliance response is not who does the law enforcement so much as the sort of behaviour which is subject to control . |
| 24 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 25 | John listened hard at each introduction and heard , variously , MacMahanon , MacManamon , MacMarneymum , and — once-MacMillan ; he gave up and settled once again for MacMinimum , to which the man invariably answered without so much as the lifting of an eyebrow . |
| 26 | It is not a ‘ defence ’ so much as the negation of the elements of the crime . |
| 27 | The price of the bow was as much as the income of a common man for a year . |
| 28 | For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK . |
| 29 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 30 | Charman chipped in half as much as the rest because he was not sure whether he wanted to stay with them — and actually played only half the record . |