Example sentences of "much as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 2 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 3 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 4 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 5 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 6 | There is nothing Perks like so much as a good fight . |
| 7 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 8 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |
| 9 | Detroit , Michigan-based Compuware says the deal will enable it to release CICS fault diagnosis products the same time as new IBM CICS releases , so giving it as much as a three-month lead over its rivals . |
| 10 | Not quite as much as a hot summer 's day . |
| 11 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 12 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 13 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 14 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 15 | At that point it was viewed very much as a short-term arrangement , with more suitable employment to be sought come the winter . |
| 16 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 17 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 18 | A.agassizii is even more peaceful than most — I have two males and a female occupying an 18″ breeding tank without the non-dominant male showing so much as a frayed fin . |
| 19 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 20 | This suggests as much as a triple purpose in Kant 's analysis of our concern for animals . |
| 21 | In the East the Russian and Swedish forces were remarkable for their national character and resulting homogeneity ; and every Russo-Turkish war was a religious at least as much as a political struggle to the ordinary soldier on both sides . |
| 22 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 23 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 24 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 25 | He walked away down the corridor , without so much as a backward look , and tears stung her eyes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |