Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 2 | When he had finished , the king was motionless and silent for so long that the messenger held his breath , in dread of the repercussions that commonly attend the bearer of bad news . |
| 3 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 4 | It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's . |
| 6 | This is nowhere near as dangerous as the spike itself , but still causes a strength 5 attack on any targets hit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Niall Grant was about as vulnerable as a shark ! |
| 14 | One would have been the creation of a new light source , about as great as the sun . |
| 15 | The trouble here is that the implausibility of the truth of scepticism is about as great as the implausibility of the truth of anti-realism . |
| 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 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 19 | You 're about as helpless as a hurricane . ’ |
| 20 | It was about as long as an arm . |
| 21 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Steve Lavalle is about as spiritual as a traffic bollard , and four times less intelligent — and you know it . ’ |
| 25 | I get about as pissed as a bloke can . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For emotional resonance , flags are about as potent as a quadrilateral of cloth can be . |
| 29 | The same applies to Scrash , although they 're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive . |
| 30 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |