Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 2 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 3 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 4 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 5 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 8 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 9 | There is nothing Perks like so much as a good fight . |
| 10 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 11 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |
| 12 | He walked away down the corridor , without so much as a backward look , and tears stung her eyes . |
| 13 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
| 14 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 15 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
| 16 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 17 | With which she stalked past him and into the hall without so much as a backward glance at Theda , standing by the desk , a look of new hope in her eyes . |
| 18 | A.agassizii is even more peaceful than most — I have two males and a female occupying an 18″ breeding tank without the non-dominant male showing so much as a frayed fin . |
| 19 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 20 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 21 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 22 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 23 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 24 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 25 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 26 | No roads , no villages , not so much as a solitary building , not even an animal . |
| 27 | Not only did Shearer fail to score , but Monkou also refused him licence for so much as a solitary shot at goal . |
| 28 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 29 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 30 | A further protest rose to her lips , but , since she had other more important matters to think about , she obligingly went and placed her foot on the ledge and , raising her trouser leg a little , allowed him to study her beige cotton sock where there was not so much as a broken thread . |