Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [det] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 3 | A family doctor often finds himself a father confessor as much as a physician . |
| 4 | But as one of the detective-constables clicked a pair of handcuffs round his wrists , Cedric Downes was apparently in no state at all to mouth as much as a monosyllable , let alone give utterance to any incriminating statement . |
| 5 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 6 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 7 | After a brief spell with ex-GN Class 312s , relief came in 1988 with brand-new Class 321s , sporting a smart exterior , but in truth little more than a Class 319 Thameslink unit without the end gangway connection . |
| 8 | The island , in truth little more than a detached headland , is about seventy metres high , and progress on to it is by way of one of many gullies filled with sand . |
| 9 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 10 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 11 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 12 | Even if you were five behind with five to go with Seve , he still thought he could win , and there 's nothing pumps a caddie up more than a guy who thinks like that . |
| 13 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 14 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 15 | It 's a well-known fact that no one likes a good joke as much as a mallard . ’ |
| 16 | The Captain General , a civilian as much as a military administrator , was master of his province , the corregidor of his district as the minister was not yet master of his department . |
| 17 | The branch line was not immediately axed by Beeching , but the writing was on the wall , and on 3 January 1972 the last passenger train left Swanage ‘ from a station little more than a ghost ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 19 | Where rainwater ‘ soakaways ’ are used , they should be at least 5m ( 16ft 6in ) from the foundations , and consist of an excavated pit not less than a 1m cube filled with gravel and surrounded by silt , sand and gravel . |
| 20 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 21 | On current trends the party will be lucky to get a fifth of the vote at the non-racial election now less than a year away ( the tentative date is April 1994 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Are we not driven every bit as much as a master drives his servants ? ’ |
| 23 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 24 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 25 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 28 | Fluid intake too , in the form of wine , beer , spirits , and a cup of tea , serves a social role as much as a biological one . |
| 29 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 30 | In substance , the Church of England is now self-regulating and Parliament 's role in connection with its legislation little more than a throwback to the days when the established Church had a more substantial role to play in the affairs of the State . |