Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |
| 2 | An anonymous seventeenth-century chorographer remarked : Robert Reyce described High Suffolk as ‘ Parts inclining to the east ’ where pasture ruled , the people ‘ contenting themselves onely with so much tillage as will satisfie their own expences ’ . |
| 3 | He had no intention of hurrying ; that , he implied , with as much hypocrisy as lack of tact , was what foreigners wanted , not good Spaniards like himself . |
| 4 | Each meeting-point was timed with as much leeway as moon and tide might allow — say an hour on occasions , although many submarine captains took bold risks in staying offshore beyond the agreed times when no recovery had been made , just in case the canoeists were late . |
| 5 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 6 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , though , small pahoehoe lavas can pour into the sea with as little disturbance as cream poured into coffee , there is a little steam , but little else . |
| 8 | Initially this could be on the basis of individual projects or overhead accounts and subsequently in as much detail as management consider necessary . |
| 9 | ‘ Deano ’ is England potential , one of the new highly-educated and articulate young pros due far more remuneration than county cricket can provide . |