Example sentences of "much [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
| 32 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 33 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
| 34 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 35 | With which she stalked past him and into the hall without so much as a backward glance at Theda , standing by the desk , a look of new hope in her eyes . |
| 36 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 37 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 38 | It 's a cultural as much as a commercial problem . |
| 39 | A further protest rose to her lips , but , since she had other more important matters to think about , she obligingly went and placed her foot on the ledge and , raising her trouser leg a little , allowed him to study her beige cotton sock where there was not so much as a broken thread . |
| 40 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 41 | ‘ Bill Mishkin 's just made New Canaan , Connecticut , March 1 to April 14 , without so much as a single shooting , beating , or naked buttock from one end to the other ! |
| 42 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 43 | She would cut off her right arm and give it to him if he came over with as much as a single bag . |
| 44 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |
| 45 | He allowed her to go through everything without so much as a single interruption . |
| 46 | It was a small army as much as a large family . |
| 47 | At the end of it there 's the chance that we may have to take action ; we 'd take that very much as a last resort , and we hope our customers will respond without the necessity for fines or prosecutions . |
| 48 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 49 | In athletes , and Arctic explorers , there can be as much as a two-fold rise in metabolic rate , requiring the calorie intake to be doubled in order to maintain normal weight . |
| 50 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 51 | The snake is still finding enough strength to thrash around as much as a flying snake might dare . |
| 52 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 53 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 54 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 55 | A flimsy paper-bag costs as much as a Chinese pound of beansprouts . |
| 56 | I it is a character , as much as a another letter A is a character . |
| 57 | But Rohan had not put in so much as a token appearance . |
| 58 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 59 | Trax costs about twice as much as a conventional walkway . |
| 60 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |