Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 2 | The affair started not so much as a head-first plunge as a mesmerised topple . |
| 3 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 4 | Cornford himself came to be regarded as much as a typically doomed and respected idealist of his generation as a poet . |
| 5 | It rapidly demonstrated its power and haulage capacity despite teething troubles , and 140 of these and a slightly smaller variant transformed train operation over most of the steam-worked Southern lines . |
| 6 | At that time , radio sets were beyond the means of all but a very limited number of them . |
| 7 | The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive . |
| 8 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 9 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
| 10 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |
| 11 | Apple , following its success in the desktop publishing market , was out to capture a new niche before anyone became aware that it probably was n't really a niche at all but a fairly well established business . |
| 12 | How ridiculous , and all because a politically created market is rigged against coal . |
| 13 | For all his faults , Lij Yasu was remembered by many as a more comprehensible ruler than Haile Selassie , who failed to conform to the popular image of an Abyssinian monarch . |
| 14 | In his later asylums at Gloucester ( 1811 ) and Dundee ( 1812 ) , Stark himself adopted markedly less institutionalized concepts , the former being planned as a crescent set in gardens and the latter as a domestically scaled rural farm . |
| 15 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 16 | Mitchell then forwarded to Cameron in Dar es Salaam a quite unrecognizable version of the Murrells scheme which was nothing more than a vastly elaborated edition of the existing system of administration through the laibon and laigwenak . |
| 17 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 18 | This view is more than a particularly extreme form of the New Critics ' attack on the ‘ intentional fallacy ’ . |
| 19 | More are appearing all the time , and nineteen eighty two will be no more than a particularly rich year for them . |
| 20 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 21 | That slight stiffness I mentioned earlier takes a little getting used to , but no more than a slightly eager clutch , say , in a new car . |
| 22 | It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family , Marquesses of Bath , at nearby Longleat ; that may be the case , but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy . |
| 23 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 24 | Indeed , Parkin goes on to suggest that the functionalist theory of stratification itself is an expression of the same value-system : no more than a rather sophisticated mechanism for providing a justification of unequal rewards . |
| 25 | The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is nothing more than a rather larger Americanised version of Wookey Hole in Somerset or the Dan-yr-Ogof caves in South Wales . |
| 26 | With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe . |
| 27 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 28 | This , however , is said to be nothing more than a scantily concealed voluntarism . |
| 29 | This Act introduced a new block grant in England and Wales and included a formula which penalized councils which spent more than a previously determined limit . |
| 30 | If so , it would seem to be no more than a logically disreputable form of reasoning to which I have to resort until the scientific study of behaviour puts more rigorous methods at my disposal . |