Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Overall , the south presents nothing like as bleak a picture for Congress as the north , at this stage of the campaign .
2 Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake .
3 While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them .
4 What she saw under the lights was a boat , a big one in too small a space .
5 Did the British government offer anything like as good a deal as the Spanish government ?
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