Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 2 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 3 | Their seven-wicket victory with seven overs to spare was only marginally less emphatic than a crushing 10-wicket triumph in the second match on Saturday . |
| 4 | Remember that Fermi resonance is only possible when a fundamental and a second-order band have the same symmetry and are close together in energy . |
| 5 | Such a credulity-straining coincidence is only possible when a dybbuk pulls the strings . |
| 6 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 7 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 8 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 9 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 10 | The ceremony is much shorter than a religious one so many people like to hold a service of blessing afterwards . |
| 11 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 12 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 13 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 14 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 15 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 16 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 17 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 18 | For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick . |
| 19 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 20 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 21 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 24 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 27 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 28 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 29 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |