Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 3 | As it is , women hold barely more than a quarter of all managerial and administrative posts , yet make up nearly half the workforce . |
| 4 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 5 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 6 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 7 | The Kefauver report is mentioned in passing but neither the Hubert Humphrey follow-up , nor Morton Mintz 's massive By Prescription Only , nor Rick Carlson 's The End of Medicine get so much as a mention . |
| 8 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 9 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 10 | Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s . |
| 11 | The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies . |
| 12 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |