Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Such a credulity-straining coincidence is only possible when a dybbuk pulls the strings . |
| 4 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 5 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 6 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 7 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 8 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 9 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 10 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 11 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 12 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 15 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 16 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 17 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 18 | This is not a question of whether the project can be funded indefinitely so much as a question of whether the initiatives in particular schools can maintain momentum once the project grant has been spent . |
| 19 | But by not so much as a flicker of an eyebrow did he betray his emotions . |
| 20 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 23 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 24 | You see , ’ she went on earnestly , ‘ if you were to change the past by so much as a second , do just one minute thing differently , the results could be catastrophic . |
| 25 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
| 26 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 27 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 28 | without so much as a sign : |
| 29 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 30 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |