Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 2 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 3 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 4 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 6 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 7 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 8 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
| 9 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 10 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 11 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
| 12 | Now the Brentnall Street premises the club 's fourth headquarters do n't have so much as a bike stand . |
| 13 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 14 | You do not have a property investment market so much as a lease investment market . |
| 15 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
| 16 | But whatever you do , do n't give him so much as a cough sweet ! ’ |
| 17 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 18 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 19 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
| 20 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
| 21 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 22 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 23 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 24 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 25 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 26 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 27 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 28 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 29 | In simpler situations the system of mirrors still works well , and is , of course , much cheaper than a television camera and monitor . |
| 30 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |