Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [det] [conj] 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 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 16 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 17 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
| 18 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 19 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 20 | without so much as a sign : |
| 21 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 22 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 23 | ‘ Me ma went and dropped me there then died without so much as a word . |
| 24 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 25 | Though , had she thought she might get out of his car and leave him without so much as a word being said between them , she found she was mistaken . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 27 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 28 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 29 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 30 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |