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 .
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