Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ . |
| 2 | There are various possible causes — most of them more likely than cancer . |
| 3 | If people actually accuse you of something as serious as cruelty and neglect , is n't it worth a listen ? |
| 4 | Maybe with groups of us as small as sort of six to ten . |
| 5 | He tried to hold a sea chest , but his hands passed through it as through something slightly thicker than water . |
| 6 | It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise . |
| 7 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 8 | The voice went on to say that , when you were faced with something as frightening as death , you needed the right people around you , and the right people were the Paradise Corporation etc. etc . |
| 9 | No one had charged him with anything more serious than naivety and now he was one of the most successful fashion designers in New York . |
| 10 | You have , Ladies and Gentlemen , to give this much to the Luftwaffe : when it knocked down our buildings , it did n't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble . |
| 11 | In Brazil , according to Carolina , ‘ either you do sex films or you die professionally ’ , because of the politically repressive climate in which little other than sex films pleases the eye of the censor . |
| 12 | And why was a country like Germany interested in anything as spasmo as ballet ? |
| 13 | To someone as proud as Angel , this , and the result of the war , had been the ultimate humiliation . |
| 14 | Perhaps he believes in third-time lucky , but other hopefuls in the British auction would do well to rely on something more concrete than fortune . |
| 15 | Dickson concludes that : " Tory fears of the great world of wealth and influence , which they hated with the intensity of the excluded , were based on something more solid than ignorance and prejudice . " |
| 16 | The theologians ' determination to rest their faith on something more secure than history has made them more than willing , in many circumstances , to accept that the historical evidence of Jesus ' life is as patchy as the most sceptical secular historian says it is . |
| 17 | Any research on something as complex as intelligence or the biological effects of very low levels of a substance is bound to be difficult , not least because so many factors are involved . |
| 18 | But , Mr Boldwood , any woman would hesitate before deciding on something as important as marriage . |
| 19 | Not that Luke Hunter would ever descend to anything as crude as rape . |
| 20 | He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it . |
| 21 | Spend an arty weekend in St Petersburg — at its most ravishing once snow has fallen . |
| 22 | Jonadab Oaks was at his most impressive when organisation was needed . |
| 23 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |