Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head . |
| 2 | On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read . |
| 3 | ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit . |
| 4 | Their seven-wicket victory with seven overs to spare was only marginally less emphatic than a crushing 10-wicket triumph in the second match on Saturday . |
| 5 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 6 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 7 | Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) . |
| 8 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 9 | Remember that Fermi resonance is only possible when a fundamental and a second-order band have the same symmetry and are close together in energy . |
| 10 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 11 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 12 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 13 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 14 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 15 | The ceremony is much shorter than a religious one so many people like to hold a service of blessing afterwards . |
| 16 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 17 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 18 | For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick . |
| 19 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 20 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 21 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 22 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 23 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 24 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 25 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 26 | There is nothing Perks like so much as a good fight . |
| 27 | Nigel Lowson , however , now head of geography at the £9,150-a-year Tonbridge School in Kent , remembers Tim not so much as a staid , jolly , reliable type as a chap with a sense of humour . |
| 28 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 29 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 30 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |