Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [subord] 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 | Much the same as a dotted , dotted minim . |
| 4 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This visit is as much a political as a practical gesture . |
| 7 | This is as much a logical as a psychological principle . |
| 8 | Not so much an everyday as a canine chameleon , in fact . |
| 9 | Second , Mr Deng was less an idealist than a sensible moderniser and nationalist . |
| 10 | But it looks just the same as a real animal . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If their protection under agreement and under law was exactly the same as a full time-worker then what 'd happen is simple . |
| 13 | At this point , though , we should not forget the hard-learned lesson that an evolutionary argument is not the same as a developmental one . |
| 14 | I may have poured myself into my books , my home , my garden and my animals , but the loving feeling I have for them is not the same as a loving relationship , which goes beyond feeling into action and commitment . |
| 15 | On the other hand , fear of the unknown , shame at admitting that relatives have harmed them , and fear of retribution may create a kind of mental and emotional paralysis which is not the same as a positive wish to stay at home . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Coming down for a month is not the same as a permanent move . |
| 17 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 18 | Psepha was suddenly rising gracefully , the afternoon sunlight gleaming off wings that were still no more than a golden film . |
| 19 | " Socrates and Greek-Tragedy " was the immediate source of the central part ( 8-is ) , but was more a final than a preliminary version . |
| 20 | To many of her friends she seemed more a mystic than a likely scientist , despite her encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history ; a woman with religious respect for and understanding of the environment , an ecologist long before the term was widely known . |
| 21 | To the island inhabitants of Britain , such peoples remain distant ( though the English Channel constitutes now more a psychological than a physical barrier ) , with alien cultures , different interests , and different thought processes . |
| 22 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 23 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 24 | It was probably no more than a daring exaggeration of the ‘ donkey-fringe ’ style which was the standard Hooligan haircut . |
| 25 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 26 | ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function . |
| 27 | Old Bolingbroke , now no more than a picturesque small village but once much larger and with a castle , was the birthplace of Henry IV |
| 28 | As millions of rail travellers will testify , the ‘ service ’ is now no more than a sick joke . |
| 29 | Any broader benefit to less glamorous plants and animals is often no more than a happy accident . |
| 30 | Mind you , it had a chess program that he 'd load up for me but it just ai n't the same as a human being . |