Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 2 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 3 | A French accent in Scotland was a good deal less unacceptable than a Scottish one in England . |
| 4 | Is a smooth , legitimate executive succession more desirable than a popular one , however it is achieved ? |
| 5 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 6 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 7 | Elinor , now asleep in the bedroom , her square jaw up like a tombstone , her mouth as wide as a new grave , her light snore ticking fitfully , like some tired machine . |
| 8 | Everything that he 'd had in mind to say to her was suddenly gone from his head , his mind as blank as a new wall and his belly full of sudden , inexplicable dread . |
| 9 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 10 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 11 | Policies to reduce the real wage rate in the face of Keynesian unemployment could make matters far worse since a common feature of temporary equilibrium models is the positive functional dependence of consumption expenditure on the real wage rate . |
| 12 | Occasionally a faint glow from the city brushed the edge of his cheek and she was reminded how handsome he was , the smooth chin , his lines as clean as a lengthening shadow . |
| 13 | Tranmere now were not only confident but cocky , and as Spurs deteriorated into a formation as ragged as a returning Battle of Britain squadron it was the Third Division side who found space and time . |
| 14 | And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) . |
| 15 | Aunt Goldie points to a moon-faced infant in a perambulator as high as a royal coach . |
| 16 | That is , they would each have to be about 450 times more accurate than a typical real-life secretary . |
| 17 | To become commercial , though , the magnets will have to be made at least two-three times more powerful and a good deal lighter than they are today . |
| 18 | A thirty-second verbal report is thirty times more valuable than a thirty-page written report |
| 19 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 20 | The island , in truth little more than a detached headland , is about seventy metres high , and progress on to it is by way of one of many gullies filled with sand . |
| 21 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 22 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 25 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 26 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 27 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
| 28 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 29 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 30 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |