Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 2 | Thermal formation and persistence appears to be the dominant feature of convection regardless of Prandtl number ( at least from values rather less than 1 to very much greater than 1 ; experimental evidence for Pr < 1 is limited ) . |
| 3 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 4 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that young children like stories about giants so much because that 's what adults seem like to them . |
| 6 | In some ways the share price performance has made a deal with one of the US car giants less likely since the numbers have changed quite dramatically . |
| 7 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 8 | No doubt there are many projects much older than this that use only standard ‘ off the shelf ’ items , and which are still quite buildable . |
| 9 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 10 | There had been nothing either prurient or arbitrary in their choice of frankly sexual emblems to embody the mystery of the Conjunction ; but even in times less hypocritical than her own such pictures had proved subject to misinterpretation . |
| 11 | And if they are from Yorkshire , they are five times less likely than most women to wear knickers underneath . |
| 12 | Women are five times less likely than men to be with the same employer at 40 and eight times less likely at 55 ( Aoki 1984 p.82 ) . |
| 13 | As PSR J0437–4715 is so close , however , it should be possible to detect a companion about 25 times less luminous than the limit on PSR B1855+09 . |
| 14 | Schmidt 's team have concluded that the molten fuel is five times less conductive than theoretical studies , on which the safety-design work for PWRs is based , had suggested . |
| 15 | Yet at the same time his work began to display doubts and uncertainty : the oils produced in 1949 are uneven , their coarseness at times less deliberate than despairing . |
| 16 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 17 | Objects much greater than 1km in diameter do not fragment while traversing the Earth 's atmosphere , as an atmospherically induced pressure wave has insufficient time to cross the object before impact . |
| 18 | Because of this , oilbirds can not sense objects much smaller than 20 centimetres across . |
| 19 | Syphilis and its origin are subjects that have occupied physicians and historians over the ages perhaps more than any other condition . |
| 20 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 21 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 22 | Clouds enveloping mountain-tops and coastal fogs are usually characterized by pH values much lower than rainfall ( Bridgman , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |
| 24 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 25 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 26 | If the mark of a reborn evangelical is a devotion to the Epistles of St Paul and in particular to the doctrine of Justification by Faith , then there can have been few Christian converts less evangelical than Lewis . |
| 27 | The spectrum of questions for which answers were sought took in everything from specifics , like ‘ Are dialogue sequences less compelling than action scenes ? ’ to abstracts querying the very suspension of disbelief principle thought essential to any form of drama viewing — especially children 's viewing . |
| 28 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 29 | WCM readers perhaps more than most will have cherished its long-time contributor 's confident re-entry , all flowing drives and elegant poise , with the occasional nicks to remind us of his vulnerability . |
| 30 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |