Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adj] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Gauntlett 's product is that most impeccably British of all motor-cars ( not automobiles ) , the Aston Martin : a car so devastatingly English as to make Rolls-Bentleys seem like Hondas . |
| 2 | Are the sales figures put forward in the case study really as good as implied ? |
| 3 | It is the suspense novel , a type more easily recognised than defined . |
| 4 | Thames Valley Police welcome the campaign as more effective than chasing motorists through the courts . |
| 5 | He left behind him a baby daughter , a huge political and religious crisis , and a power-struggle far more savage than had ever been experienced before , which began literally at the death-bed . |
| 6 | Once upon a time , of course , when you craved new clothes , you had to save for them — a quaint custom almost as outdated as horsedrawn carriages and farthingales . |
| 7 | Non-sufferers regard incontinence as more handicapping than do sufferers , which suggests that these figures are no exaggeration . |
| 8 | The Treasury saw local councils as part of that strategy just as much as spending departments in Whitehall or the nationalised industries — a very clear ‘ agency ’ view . |
| 9 | He was invariably escorted by the SS Security Officer , and while the Nazi ogled her , the Dane never so much as looked her way . |
| 10 | There stood Balboa , his shield on his arm , his cuirass gleaming on his chest , the brilliant new banner in one hand and his naked sword in the other , his plumed helmet giving him a stature far more considerable than offered by his height alone . |
| 11 | I stood leaning on the staff , grinning and throwing an arm in the air as he approached , but he and his companion never so much as looked as they sped back to Adrar . |
| 12 | Now if they pull it off everybody 'll heave a sigh of relief and their methods will be forgiven , and if they do n't then it 'll all be Number 10 's fault and that would probably suit their book just as much as coming good on Plainsong itself . ’ |
| 13 | Neither of them is over six foot yet both more than punch their weight . |
| 14 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 15 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 16 | The design of the kite plays its part in determining the size of the flight envelope just as much as does wind strength . |