Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many people who choose to work more than 48 hours per week , and who thereby earn overtime and give greater security to their families , would be most upset if an edict from Brussels took the right to work such overtime away from them , especially as hon. Members would be excluded from the rules , as would the bureaucrats in Europe and all managers and executives ? |
| 2 | It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct . |
| 3 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 6 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 7 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 8 | Without so much as an order , the line parted , one and two , and flowed on past Fred White without even breaking step . |
| 9 | When I first approached The Smiths in regard to this book , although treated with sympathy from their manager , I was waved aside without so much as an acknowledgement . |
| 10 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 11 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 12 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 13 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 14 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 15 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |
| 16 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 18 | They thus gave specific attention to the instinctive bases of human behaviour , this being much more than an attempt to make an analogy between the human world and the struggles for survival identified by Darwin in the natural world . |
| 19 | This is especially important when an aquifer dips beneath another layer that is much less permeable . |
| 20 | Not all women can use IUDs and they complain about the side effects of the Pill , but the Pill is much safer than an abortion . ’ |
| 21 | In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview . |
| 22 | Early appointment is obviously essential when an emergency protection order is made as the guardian must consider whether to apply for early discharge on the child 's behalf . |
| 23 | I ca n't sit for much longer than an hour . |
| 24 | A child 's skin is much thinner than an adult 's and so more prone to burning . |
| 25 | This potential to transform practical into verbal consciousness is highly significant if an elder is to be assessed affirmatively , and is easily ignored in functional assessments . |
| 26 | However , that is not possible where an order is placed by telephone . |
| 27 | Ordinary bequests were not payable if an estate was indebted and dispositions in the form of trusts were also invalid . |
| 28 | A Customs and Excise spokesman said they can not tell if there has been an offence as they are not sure if an import licence was ever necessary . |
| 29 | One of them , a handsome man scarcely more than an adolescent , shouted something in a high voice . |
| 30 | Therefore , if the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than an equilibrium amount ; then , if the scale of production is temporarily diminished somewhat below that equilibrium amount , it will tend to return ; thus the equilibrium is stable for displacements in that direction . |