Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 2 | A French accent in Scotland was a good deal less unacceptable than a Scottish one in England . |
| 3 | A ‘ hot ’ lava , freshly-erupted , is a great deal less viscous than a ‘ cold ’ one , and it can therefore flow faster . |
| 4 | Is a smooth , legitimate executive succession more desirable than a popular one , however it is achieved ? |
| 5 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 6 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 7 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |
| 8 | Once through the hall door , massive under its fanlight and fitted with a brass lock as big as a bible , and down the steps on to the gravel , Nicandra changed back into whatever sort of purposeful animal all the long-sustained acts of kindness and thoughts for the happiness of others had left in her . |
| 9 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 10 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 11 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 12 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 13 | Frogs , lizards and small mammals are all hunted on the ground ; and the largest rattlesnakes , such as the diamondbacks , which may exceed 2 m ( 6l/2 ft ) in length , feed on animals as large as a hare . |
| 14 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 15 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 16 | Elinor , now asleep in the bedroom , her square jaw up like a tombstone , her mouth as wide as a new grave , her light snore ticking fitfully , like some tired machine . |
| 17 | A grille was opened , revealing an evil , narrow-faced , yellow-featured man with eyes of watery blue and a mouth as thin as a vice . |
| 18 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 19 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 20 | Everything that he 'd had in mind to say to her was suddenly gone from his head , his mind as blank as a new wall and his belly full of sudden , inexplicable dread . |
| 21 | Our hotel , the Atlantico , overlooked the harbour , and that evening we watched a local single-engined plane repeatedly flying over the harbour as low as a couple of hundred feet above the cranes . |
| 22 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 23 | With eyes as wide as a football pool , |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , is that a salami in his pocket ? ’ she said all innocent , with eyes as wide as a Volvo 's sidelights . |
| 25 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 26 | Ambient air samples from 50 locations , up to 1000 feet away , are continuously analysed for up to 25 different chemical compounds chosen by the user , at concentrations as low as a few ppb . |
| 27 | These were high status castes and many of them were found to have sex ratios as low as a thousand to one , sorry , a hundred to one . |
| 28 | IT is one of the quieter moments in a campaign as raucous as a New York gridlock . |
| 29 | She could still remember it all intensely : the swimming pool in which she had learnt to do a dog-paddle ; the ring game ; the endless stretch of blue ocean ; the vast liner as big as a city through which she and Pappy had wandered endlessly . |
| 30 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |