Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not significant for less than three tracks , as it is effectively the same as a sequential search for one or two tracks . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 3 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 4 | Much the same as a dotted , dotted minim . |
| 5 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 6 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 7 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 8 | This visit is as much a political as a practical gesture . |
| 9 | This is as much a logical as a psychological principle . |
| 10 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 11 | Alexandra put down a black and a yellow bishop side by side on matching squares . |
| 12 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 13 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 15 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 16 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 17 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 18 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 19 | Not so much an everyday as a canine chameleon , in fact . |
| 20 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 21 | Second , Mr Deng was less an idealist than a sensible moderniser and nationalist . |
| 22 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 23 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |
| 24 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 25 | But it looks just the same as a real animal . ’ |
| 26 | As far as the consumer is concerned this is just the same as a 15 per cent sales tax . |
| 27 | The telerecording screen was exactly the same as a domestic television screen except that it was flat rather than curved , eliminating any distortion from the image when captured on film . |
| 28 | If their protection under agreement and under law was exactly the same as a full time-worker then what 'd happen is simple . |
| 29 | At this point , though , we should not forget the hard-learned lesson that an evolutionary argument is not the same as a developmental one . |
| 30 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |