Example sentences of "much as a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
2 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
3 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
4 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
5 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
6 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
7 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
8 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
9 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
10 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |