Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | However , better this than the alternative , ‘ Dookeepent-arch ’ , which means ‘ Please , let's never see each other again ’ . |
| 3 | If we can achieve so much before the demonstration is even held then much more is possible . ’ |
| 4 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 5 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 6 | Completing this task outside the ERM will be more difficult , but it would be a betrayal of those who have sacrificed so much if the task were to be abandoned . |
| 7 | It would n't have mattered so much if the nights had brought the compensations she had been led to expect . |
| 8 | It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read . |
| 9 | When Arthur was sound again , I had Countryman and Lannegan , and somehow I did n't enjoy riding him so much because every time he jumped , I was afraid he 'd be lame . |
| 10 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 11 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |
| 12 | This occurs not so much because the engineers are callous , but because of a blinkered approach by all parties . |
| 13 | It 's not so much because the Royal Family is out there , but because you are in front of so many of your peers . |
| 14 | The very suggestion pained her so much because the company appeared uncaring and tough ; she therefore denied that such a thing could possibly have occurred . |
| 15 | The class of service determines which facilities you can use , I would n't worry about that so much because the system is set up so that most people can use most facilities . |
| 16 | Giorgio Armani wears navy , beige and more navy — punctuated with the occasional white T-shirt — and he has built an empire on the principle that nothing becomes a woman so much as every shade of sludge on the mud flats . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |
| 26 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 27 | ‘ Not eating nor drinking anything , not even so much as a crumb . |
| 28 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 29 | He had learned to bear their ridicule without so much as a tear , but the names Sweetheart called him when she was really angry could make his body hurt like a bad pain on the inside . |
| 30 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |