Example sentences of "not so much as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |
| 2 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 3 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 4 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 7 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 8 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 9 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 10 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 11 | These minerals are relatively insoluble and act not so much as direct plant foods , but put the soil in a state that favours the buildup and activity of soil life . |
| 12 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 13 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 14 | see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ . |
| 15 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 16 | But there are places where the residents are seen not so much as customers but as ‘ them ’ . |
| 17 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 18 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 19 | I began to see the city , not so much as a cityscape , but as a still life made up of street lights , buses , cars and shop windows . |
| 20 | I BEGAN TO SEE THE CITY , NOT SO MUCH AS A CITYSCAPE , BUT AS A STILL LIFE MADE UP OF STREET LIGHTS . |
| 21 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 22 | Aunt Sarah did not so much as lift her head from the rug she was making , but Ruth watched the way the rug hook stabbed the canvas with increased speed and vigour , as if she wanted to hurt it , and Ruth knew that her aunt was as tense as she was herself . |
| 23 | The affair started not so much as a head-first plunge as a mesmerised topple . |
| 24 | Nigel Lowson , however , now head of geography at the £9,150-a-year Tonbridge School in Kent , remembers Tim not so much as a staid , jolly , reliable type as a chap with a sense of humour . |
| 25 | I may not so much as glance at all those handsome courtiers ! ’ |
| 26 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |
| 27 | It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality , but not so much as to overwhelm . |
| 28 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
| 29 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 30 | I began to see the city , not so much as a cityscape , but as a still life made up of street lights , buses , cars and shop windows . |