Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 2 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 3 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 4 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |
| 5 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 6 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 7 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 8 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 9 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 10 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 11 | A grille was opened , revealing an evil , narrow-faced , yellow-featured man with eyes of watery blue and a mouth as thin as a vice . |
| 12 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 13 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 14 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 15 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 16 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 17 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
| 18 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 19 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 20 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 22 | After a brief spell with ex-GN Class 312s , relief came in 1988 with brand-new Class 321s , sporting a smart exterior , but in truth little more than a Class 319 Thameslink unit without the end gangway connection . |
| 23 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 24 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 25 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 26 | Even if you were five behind with five to go with Seve , he still thought he could win , and there 's nothing pumps a caddie up more than a guy who thinks like that . |
| 27 | Indeed , extra-curricular activity includes attracting as much media attention as possible as a member of Act-Up , the New York activists whose purpose is to elevate Aids to the top of government priorities . |
| 28 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 29 | He accepted Toby 's outstretched hand , its appearance as limp as a flipper , only to find that the grasp was strong and confident . |
| 30 | dogs and other pets snakes and other poisonous creatures There 's no weapon as versatile as a knife . |