Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 2 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 3 | They get between me and my patients , at any time , for so much as a nanosecond , and they 're out , I do n't care what it does to their scheduling . ’ |
| 4 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 5 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 6 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 7 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 8 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |
| 9 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 10 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 11 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 13 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 14 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |
| 15 | Niall Grant was about as vulnerable as a shark ! |
| 16 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 17 | In sporting terms , it was about as relevant as a showing of Treasure Hunt or Interceptor — the TV game shows which have occupied her recently . |
| 18 | You 're about as helpless as a hurricane . ’ |
| 19 | In this real world context , which will powerfully affect Britain , Mr Smith 's ‘ luvvie ’ proposals are about as useful as a powder puff to a man with chronic heart disease . |
| 20 | ‘ Steve Lavalle is about as spiritual as a traffic bollard , and four times less intelligent — and you know it . ’ |
| 21 | I get about as pissed as a bloke can . |
| 22 | In the press , in the House of Commons , in reports to government departments and in popular folklore there emerged the evacuee stereotype — a dirty , lice-ridden and foul-mouthed urchin who wet the bed with monotonous regularity , preferred fish and chips to a proper three-course meal and was about as domesticated as a wildcat ; similarly , the evacuee mother appeared as a negligent slut , impossible to live with and having the vocabulary of a Billingsgate fish porter . |
| 23 | It is the Alpine 's bizarre , clap-hands windscreen wipers which would do Heath Robinson proud with the unnecessary complexity of their design and engineering and , in the matter of clearing rain , are about as effective as a Government promise to bring more civil service jobs to Scotland . |
| 24 | For emotional resonance , flags are about as potent as a quadrilateral of cloth can be . |
| 25 | The same applies to Scrash , although they 're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive . |
| 26 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |
| 27 | That was about as welcome as a stick of shit in the tub-water . |
| 28 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 29 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 30 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |