Example sentences of "much [subord] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
2 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
3 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
4 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
5 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |
6 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
7 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
8 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
9 | Now the Brentnall Street premises the club 's fourth headquarters do n't have so much as a bike stand . |
10 | Not bad for a car which weighs as much as a Range Rover . |
11 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
12 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
13 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
14 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
15 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
16 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
17 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
18 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
19 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
20 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
21 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
22 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
23 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
24 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
25 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
26 | In the short term he sees NT very much as a client system , with take-up by the server community a couple of years away . |
27 | In the short term he sees NT very much as a client system , with take-up by the server community a couple of years out . |
28 | But whatever you do , do n't give him so much as a cough sweet ! ’ |
29 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |