Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced .
32 Now the quality obviously is not as good as either the flat or fully-fashioned and that 's why the Americans have a reputation for not but that 's the reason , productivity .
33 ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can .
34 According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’
35 Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health .
36 Bentley is Back And now more than just a badge 16
37 Suddenly , after battling all season with Manchester City for third place in the First Division , the Wednesday player-manager finds that finishing second is now more than just a pipe dream .
38 If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer .
39 Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work .
40 This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee .
41 In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre .
42 But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick .
43 It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village .
44 But OALD is far more than just a dictionary .
45 The haircut , however , evolved into far more than just a one-off for a TV series .
46 It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort .
47 Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous .
48 In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry .
49 Er and er yes , in in as far as where the excess , access is n't
50 Target Date can be a specific date or as general as just the month or year in which you hope that goal will be achieved .
51 Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two .
52 There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees .
53 His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide .
54 This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered .
55 Today more than ever the phrase " as old as one feels " is no mere consolatory cliche . )
56 The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised .
57 Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low .
58 as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’
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