Example sentences of "[adv] much as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 2 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 3 | Without so much as an order , the line parted , one and two , and flowed on past Fred White without even breaking step . |
| 4 | When I first approached The Smiths in regard to this book , although treated with sympathy from their manager , I was waved aside without so much as an acknowledgement . |
| 5 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 6 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 7 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 8 | The Stereos are a showband , idiot joy notwithstanding , they turn the grubby and inauspicious Marquee into the Harlem Apollo within minutes , fanning the fire limit into a regular blaze without so much as an ‘ everybody in the house say ‘ Ho ! ’ ’ |
| 9 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 10 | Accordingly a minimum of £5 will be preferred in the present work , not so much as an arbitrary demarcation , but rather as one which should prompt us to seek further evidence to confirm the holder 's status . |
| 11 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 12 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 13 | Once again the tip-toe manoeuvre — but this time it 's not quite an apology so much as an unsuccessful account . |
| 14 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 15 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |
| 16 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 17 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 18 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 19 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 20 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 21 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 22 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 23 | It was an exercise in self-congratulation from the leader of the self-proclaimed Land of Liberty as much as an expression of solidarity with the oppressed . |
| 24 | Andrew Motion 's recent poem ‘ Inland ’ describes how a society , as much as an ecology , was overturned by drainage projects in the seventeenth-century fens . |
| 25 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 26 | Karelius , who had never disliked the French as much as an Englishman should , felt himself warming to his country 's enemies . |
| 27 | Elephants lack these conspicuous folds , but they too are well defended against attack by their powerful , leathery skin which is sometimes as much as an inch thick . |
| 28 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 29 | A representative sampling of Osiris Management Services ' clientele was there , beefy ballocky blokes who prized the rugby scrum of life as much as an opportunity for putting the boot in as for winning the ball . |
| 30 | At one dollar a programme , he was reaping in as much as an extra $S100 a week . |