Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soundslike a fast , powerful car , and many would rather that than silence . |
| 2 | Better that than discretion and gentle kindliness . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 4 | Not only that but motivation can be expressed in terms of self-interest , however that may be perceived , and in terms of serving organisational interests . |
| 5 | Not only that but part of his very raison d'être , like that of his Creator , is to work . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 7 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 8 | It is not magic or superstition which is at the heart of the sacrilege so much as morality . ’ |
| 9 | We may long to scream , ‘ If you ever , ever so much as look at a prohibited substance , I 'll lock you in your bedroom until you 're 30 , ’ but we have to master our panic . |
| 10 | Erm is one they 've been in a very similar position to in so much as competition 's forced them to cost down dramatically I mean |
| 11 | If we can not take the initiative in refusing to dock tails , and are unable to so much as raise an eyebrow at what we suspect are dog fighting injuries , then why should we care how many dogs are killed weekly by the RSPCA ? |
| 12 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 13 | Er she had but not so much as father . |
| 14 | Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ . |
| 15 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 16 | I see them every day and familiarity does n't breed contempt so much as disgust in me . |
| 17 | One does n't resent it so much when life does . |
| 18 | If the hiatus is serious he may have to shut down all or part of the system or it may trip automatically and the operator 's task is to observe/control the shut-down to a quiescent state . |
| 19 | Steps built out in front of retaining walls may look better if they 're ‘ returned ’ : the sides are built out on each step , to form rectangular , curved or rounded ends , filling in all or part of the space up to the retaining wall , so that each step continues round instead of ending abruptly at the side . |
| 20 | In fact PEP investments are so attractive , they are restricted to a limit of £6,000 , per person in any one tax year , PEPs are flexible too , allowing you to cash in all or part of your investment at any time . |
| 21 | It must be stressed , however , that the choice of B must be such at unc has eigenvalues with moduli all less than unity ; Sylvester 's expansion then shows that unc as r increases . |
| 22 | As with ordinary gardens , choose water plants to give colour throughout the season , so those that flower first will gradually be replaced by later flowering ones . |
| 23 | For this reason they are bound to remain as very secondary aids to choral music , which to be genuinely original and vital needs musicianship much more than exploitation of mere sound effects . |
| 24 | We might suppose from this that Weber is merely echoing Marx 's theories , but in fact Weber emphasises the importance of the market as the economic basis for class much more than property . |
| 25 | Overall , somewhat more than half ( 57 per cent ) thought the law should be obeyed without exception , and slightly less than half ( 43 per cent ) believed that it was occasionally right to follow conscience and break the law . |
| 26 | In the classical limit when the gravitational field is weak and slowly varying where all the components of the tensor h are much less than unity . |
| 27 | And I just I , I , I just came into the meeting this morning just half and hour before this meeting I saw them there , but I really do n't know what the implications are of them there . |
| 28 | Promotion is everything there — easily more than love , power , sympathy , or sex . |
| 29 | It is not less than cruelty to force a man to remain in that state as the solace of his life , which he and his friends know will be either the undoing or the disheartening of his life . |
| 30 | The practicalities of service of the Summons , entering appearance , lodging Defences and so forth , are usually such that consideration of tactics can not be undertaken until the Adjustment Period is fixed . |