Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 2 | But do not dismiss the risk of something much worse than a ‘ meaningful downturn ’ . |
| 3 | If they do not , and if the institutions remain inactive , then auditors face something much worse than a cookbook . |
| 4 | At the same time both syllabus and materials would emphasise that the primary curriculum is seen as something much wider than a mere list of topics to be covered in class . |
| 5 | Something much larger than a man . |
| 6 | Either he had perfected the performance over the years to ward off sympathy from the able-bodied , or he was hiding something far worse than a self-destructive youth . |
| 7 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |