Example sentences of "[adv] [det] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 2 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 3 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 4 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 5 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 6 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 7 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 8 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Not eating nor drinking anything , not even so much as a crumb . |
| 12 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 13 | He had learned to bear their ridicule without so much as a tear , but the names Sweetheart called him when she was really angry could make his body hurt like a bad pain on the inside . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 16 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 17 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
| 20 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 21 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 22 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 23 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 24 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 25 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 26 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 29 | I make several trots down the run without so much as a tremble of the float . |
| 30 | without so much as a sign : |