Example sentences of "a [noun] so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 2 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 3 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 4 | Giorgio Armani wears navy , beige and more navy — punctuated with the occasional white T-shirt — and he has built an empire on the principle that nothing becomes a woman so much as every shade of sludge on the mud flats . |
| 5 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 6 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |