Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be much more difficult where an industry is geographically diffused , or where the supplier ( say , the steel industry ) faces a very wide range of market demands . |
| 2 | It is perhaps hardly more than an anecdote , generally quite short in length , in which towards the end the reader , who has been gently led along one seemingly well-defined path , is suddenly switched into seeing the situation in quite a different light . |
| 3 | A path cut precariously into the valley side , sometimes only as wide as an animal 's body , sometimes passing through the cliff itself . |
| 4 | It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct . |
| 5 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 6 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 7 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 8 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 9 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 10 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 11 | While not as flexible as an overdraft or the Managed Rate Facility , they offer the advantages of : cheaper borrowing , especially as adding Barclays name to a bill provides you with the finest rates available on the Discount Market . |
| 12 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 13 | I 'm still as randy as an adolescent |
| 14 | The dorsal or second dorsalmost spines is the longest , up to 2 arm segments in length , the ventral arm spines are short often less than an arm segment in length . |
| 15 | The measured ruthlessness of his tone was far more unnerving than an outburst of straightforward anger . |
| 16 | Reconstructing the participants ' definition of the situation would allow the analyst to explain their reasons for action , and this would be far more realistic than an assumption that the actors acted rationally . |
| 17 | So a budgeting shortfall today was regarded as more important than an energy shortfall tomorrow . |
| 18 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 19 | Classroom interaction is even more complex than an interview because of the size of the group and the choices the teacher constantly makes about how to respond to what learners say . |
| 20 | The spittle-bug or frog-hopper is equally as soft as an aphid , but three or four times the size . |
| 21 | The will and ability to stand is one of the most basic manifestations of the life-force , almost more basic than an interest in food and water . |
| 22 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 23 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 24 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 25 | Elephants lack these conspicuous folds , but they too are well defended against attack by their powerful , leathery skin which is sometimes as much as an inch thick . |
| 26 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 27 | In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview . |