Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 2 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 3 | Much less embarrassing than a kissogram the perfect fantasy served up on a plate . |
| 4 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 5 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 6 | These comments are slightly at variance with the rather more positive reports from the specialist booksellers in The Bookseller 's Christmas roundup ( 8th January ) , although the latter were evidently expressing a degree of relief that Christmas had n't been worse while the CBI survey respondents were , at least , somewhat less pessimistic than a year previously . |
| 7 | But not so terribly easy when a folder of crime-fighting guidance is left propped against every front door . |
| 8 | This seemed to Preston only a degree or so less deplorable than a tube system inhabited by ghouls . |
| 9 | There is a little mark , only just larger than a needle might have made , under her left breast . ’ |
| 10 | Choose a task requiring a variety of skills and experience , not those of an expert ( often an expert alone is much more competent than a group ) . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's so much more real than a gas boiler . |
| 12 | An upholstered stool would be much more appropriate than a coffee-table for this attractive and scholarly volume . |
| 13 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 14 | As seen in Chapter Six , both of these schemes cut serious injuries by a half , much more impressive than a reduction of one tenth in all injuries . |
| 15 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 16 | Hm. 's furniture is very much more practical than a lot of the traditional stuff that 's sold in the shops at vast expense is n't it ? |
| 17 | And that is much more important than a championship for youth next year . |
| 18 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 19 | I find that his vitality , his sort of erm sense of rightness is incredibly interesting and much more rewarding than a lot of things that are going on on the Continent . |
| 20 | The dragonfolk 's taste in clothing did n't run to anything much more imaginative than a leather harness , studded with bronze ornaments . |
| 21 | How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 22 | The Secretary of State for Wales , for instance , has said : ’ How much more abominable than a tax on widows ? |
| 23 | Remember as well that a hardwood frame is much more robust than a softwood equivalent . |
| 24 | Complete reimbursement is obviously more attractive than a contribution of a fixed amount . |
| 25 | ( These products are mentioned for information only ; such mention should not necessarily bc taken as a recommendation . ) |
| 26 | In this case the Court also said the trader who ‘ clocks ’ the odometer to zero ( or some other figure so absurdly low that a customer who reads it would not believe it ) would still be guilty . |
| 27 | The carriages are smaller than most public transport vehicles , with the largest carriage having a width of 2.2 metres , only slightly wider than a bus . |
| 28 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 29 | Ronni squeaked a puny protest , her body suddenly as stiff as a rod of iron , as Guido 's hand closed around her wrist . |
| 30 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |