Example sentences of "[det] as a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 2 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 3 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 4 | It is come , I know not how , to be taken for granted , by many persons , that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is , now at length , discovered to be fictitious . |
| 5 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |
| 6 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 7 | But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions . |
| 8 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 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 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 11 | ‘ Not so much as a stick of rock . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 14 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 15 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 16 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 17 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 18 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 19 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 20 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 21 | Nor did the Nonconformity which had survived the later Stuart period serve much as a form of social control , except for the small numbers it served . |
| 22 | ‘ It wo n't take long , ’ he persisted without so much as a hint of apology . |
| 23 | During the Olympics there was n't so much as a hint of nookie between her and her hunk . |
| 24 | No commercially-made version gives so much as a hint of its true nature . ) |
| 25 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 26 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 27 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 28 | The solution of such limited problems might be seen as a triumph of " method " as much as a source of new knowledge . |
| 29 | Victoria , I 've told you already , he appeals to me about as much as a piece of furniture . |
| 30 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |