Example sentences of "so [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 2 | ‘ She says you must both be insane to want to have me here , when I can pay so little and have no means of making more . |
| 3 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 4 | This is also partly the reason why in Adorno 's theory music in a sense takes on too much autonomy , so much as to create a danger of a relapse into idealism . |
| 5 | The purpose of such an exercise is not so much to remove dirt ( mulm in a healthy filter is quite inert ) , so much as to restore the even filtering capacity of the media . |
| 6 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 7 | Nobody had so much as breathed the word ‘ Wages ’ . |
| 8 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 9 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 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 | Two arkie surveys have produced almost nothing , and yet Mr Coombs — an elderly man — has been threatened with jail if he so much as uproots a tree in his own garden . |
| 12 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 13 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 14 | ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . ’ |
| 15 | But Summers , anxious to keep the former Argentinian international at The Hawthorns , is quoted as saying : ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . |
| 16 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 17 | If he so much as bruises a finger without good reason , I 'll come for you . |
| 18 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 19 | There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 22 | If an ant , searching the twig for food , so much as touches the barrier of infertile eggs with its antennae , it recoils violently and may even lose its footing and fall . |
| 23 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 24 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 25 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 26 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 27 | ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know . |
| 28 | She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface . |
| 29 | No one so much as raised an eyebrow in their direction . |
| 30 | And now , even if you 've never so much as threaded a needle before , you can create beautiful items with the help of the new generation of computerised sewing machines from New Home . |