Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 2 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 3 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 4 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 5 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 6 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 7 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 8 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 9 | No , I as flat as a pancake until I had her ! |
| 10 | Fortnightly [ Review ] hashed up ’ ; the third was a minister who ‘ dresses himself as much as a Church … parson as possible , as much as possible copies the ritual of the Establishment , and poses almost as a full-blown priest ’ . |
| 11 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 12 | He scrubbed himself as clean as a Viking before a battle and pulled his large white linen robe around his undried nakedness , relishing the lap of texture on wet skin . |
| 13 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 14 | Lucy would find nothing more disgusting than a tumbler of sweet sherry with her dinner . |
| 15 | ( Note : There really is nothing more comforting than a chicken from the kosher butcher . |
| 16 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 17 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 18 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 19 | In addition , all that is required is a chemical room-temperature mechanism which involves nothing more complicated than an experiment in a high school science lab . |
| 20 | Night on Earth Another road movie from cult hero Jim Jarmusch — but this time the vehicle is nothing more romantic than a taxicab . |
| 21 | As matters stand , some 27.4 per cent of my sexuality is of the Grecian or musical persuasion ; 71.6 prefers a quiet evening in with nothing more erotic than a gardening magazine and a steaming mug of Mr Horlicks 's malted beverage , whilst the remaining one per cent has become attached to one of Miss Esther Rantzen 's saucy root vegetables . |
| 22 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 23 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 24 | There is nothing more depressing than a collection of so-called first editions and rare items displaying faded spines , mull bursting through cracked hinges , scarred leather inadequately treated with greasy polish , mending tape of various hues round the spine , head and tail bands hanging forlornly and , perhaps worst of all , a badly lettered brown paper cover holding the whole thing together . |
| 25 | AFM Michael Ferguson played the Dalek claw seen at the end of episode four , but although convincing to the audience , this claw was nothing more elaborate than a joke shop gorilla hand covered in grease . |
| 26 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 27 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 28 | Billie Jean King , who little more than a decade ago was still thrilling Wimbledon crowds , is 48 and Sixties soccer idol George Best is three months older than Clinton . |
| 29 | And she as pretty as a picture with roses in her cheeks and the green eyes of a fairy . ’ |
| 30 | If they do not , and if the institutions remain inactive , then auditors face something much worse than a cookbook . |