Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [subord] [art] [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 | I ca n't sit for much longer than an hour . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 13 | This is nowhere near as dangerous as the spike itself , but still causes a strength 5 attack on any targets hit . |
| 14 | The first is that the amount of evolutionary divergence in the organization of primate brains has not been anywhere near as great as the divergence between primates and other groups . |
| 15 | But the fabric side of the business is nowhere near as labour-intensive as the pottery , where the 28 different shapes of ANTA 's Balloneware , designed by Lachlan , are all handthrown and still handpainted . |
| 16 | It is insignificant for all satellites because the residual precession is smaller the smaller the mass of the primary body , and no planet is anywhere near as massive as the Sun . |
| 17 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 18 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 19 | Nicholas still denies the exchange was anything like as bad as the court supposed and although he paid £1,300 damages to the victim , h e remains adamant that an injustice was done . |
| 20 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 24 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |
| 25 | Value for far more than the length and a half he beat Grand Applause there , he will relish the step up in trip for the Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes . |
| 26 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 27 | Attitude is never going to count for as much as the Gift — the untranscribable charisma , the arbitrary aura , the unequally-bestowed vocal magic that no amount of homework or calculation can procure . |
| 28 | Assessment would include major group projects , in which the conduct of the project would count for as much as the end product , as well as written examinations . |
| 29 | EC beef exported to west Africa sells for as little as a quarter of the price shoppers in Britain must pay . |
| 30 | ‘ For as little as a copper coin , I will utter a howl guaranteed to wake the dead . ’ |