Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 2 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 5 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 6 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 7 | One implication of these results is that soil erosion caused by the Spanish introduction of plough agriculture was apparently no more severe than that associated with traditional agricultural methods ; it is therefore questionable whether a return to traditional methods would have significant environmental benefits . |
| 8 | The liquid picture is pierced by petrified trees and paddling between the towering , upturned roots and the column-like trunks is as haunting as a visit to a sunken city . |
| 9 | And on a cold , blustery night in Dublin his brand of delta blues with enough wah-wah to set the pulse a quiver , was as welcome as a soupkitchen to the indigent . |
| 10 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've never known him closer than a mile to a pick-up . |
| 12 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 13 | Provincial assemblies met thereafter always with clerical proctors present when a subsidy to the king was at issue and sometimes when it was not . |
| 14 | ‘ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man ’ the saying goes — and so it may be , for the man can see neither . |
| 15 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 16 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 17 | This remake of Jackie Mittoo 's Studio One organ classic is typical of current Taxi fare : subtle , gently rocking , and offering more than a nod to rocksteady , right down to the drum fills probably sampled from the original version . |
| 18 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 19 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 20 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 21 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 22 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 23 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 24 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 25 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |
| 26 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
| 27 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 29 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 30 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |