Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much the Donation had been perfected and refined by the twelfth century to fit into other papal arguments , there still remained the basic problem not so much as to the origin of power as to its descent . |
| 2 | Which was it , my dear ? — uncertain not so much as to the identity of the town as to the quickest way to introduce his small and attendant wife . |
| 3 | There was no final triumph of censorship or purity during the nineteenth century , whatever the efforts of the social morality crusaders ; and the continuing concern of moral conservatives over the flood of unexpurgated literature , street ballads , music-hall songs , dubious pamphlets and advertisements attests to their continuing presence as much as to the concern of the moralists . |
| 4 | A gable roof is implied by such an arrangement and the number of posts may relate to the presence or absence of vertical side-walls as much as to the size and weight of the roof ( Figure 2.2 ) . |
| 5 | The words took time to sink in — to herself as much as to the rest . |
| 6 | Of course , this is a tribute to Muriel Spark 's novel as much as to the film ; and this is a key to the moving image portrayal of Edinburgh and its surroundings — film-makers have come to Edinburgh to produce stories which are set here already , generally well-known stories from fact or fiction . |
| 7 | But theoretically , the significance was still greater : the traditional Western bar on the ordination of the married had always applied to the diaconate as much as to the priesthood ( and for the same initial reason : marriage involving the practice of sex was regarded as causing pollution ) . |
| 8 | On the second set of questions i.e. those as to the character of parliamentary privilege , we can again be clear about a central core of doctrine but doubtful about some marginal cases . |