Example sentences of "so much as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 2 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 3 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 4 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 5 | But his evidence does not read to his discredit nearly so much as to the discredit of the committee . |
| 6 | Afterwards he reflected on the preacher 's dilemma : ‘ If he is a strong man , the possessor of popular gifts , he will be treated with plenty of consideration ; but the consideration is not due to his office so much as to his personal qualities . ’ |
| 7 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The actual loss of merchandise was not so much as to be catastrophic . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 12 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Punched the sailor without so much as by th'leave ! |
| 14 | The range of choices which are made available to the child may not be determined by the adult so much as by the nature of the interactions which are jointly established between adult and child . |
| 15 | What do you think you 're doing coming in here without so much as by your leave ? ’ |
| 16 | For , as we noted , the association of particular accents ( realized by proportions of phonological variables ) with particular social or geographical communities is generally not part of an intentional message ( Labov ( 1972a ) argues that such variables are only very partially under conscious control ) , nor are such social significances associated with linguistic forms by arbitrary synchronic convention so much as by regular historical and social process . |
| 17 | I think that nowhere so much as in London do people wear — to the eye of observation — definite signs of the sort of people they may be . |
| 18 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 19 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 20 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 21 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 22 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 23 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 24 | But predictive judgments about ability to comply are founded not upon some dispassionate analysis of economic facts and figures so much as upon characterizations of a discharger 's know-how and willingness to comply , derived from his occupation , size , experience , and reputation . |