Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 2 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |
| 3 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 4 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 5 | No , the idea is to open it without so much as a nun 's fart . |
| 6 | It is an uninhabited and notoriously hostile desert , which has contributed as much as the Nile 's cataracts to the historical isolation of Sudan . |
| 7 | The drink 's as much as the drinker 's . |
| 8 | As much as the militants ' venom , I recall the desperation of pickets who said they ‘ just want to get it over with ’ and strikers ' wives wondering where the next meal was coming from . |
| 9 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 10 | Regardless of the wide use of acupuncture and BEM , hard-nosed sceptics still insist that such methods are entirely placebo oriented , in as much as the patient 's belief that they work effects the cure . |
| 11 | So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice . |
| 12 | It is not success in itself that matters , so much as the process of/earning how to create success , learning how to manifest our personal and global visions — learning how to live in a looking-glass world . |
| 13 | And I 'm not going to expand on that cos the tape 's running . |
| 14 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , the most recent common ancestor of all the cells in a plant is no older than the spore that provided the plant 's bottlenecked beginning . |
| 15 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 16 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 18 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 19 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 20 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 21 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 22 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 23 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 24 | The Russians were even prepared to pay Khalin a £7,000 bonus — more than a year 's wages to a Russian footballer . |
| 25 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 26 | At 31 Luc Niholt comes to Swindon with more than a decade 's experience in the Dutch Premier League … a spell in Switzerland … and three years at Motherwell where he won a Scottish Cup winners medal . |
| 27 | Looking backwards , the ways of the men and women of the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century seem fixed in an ancient tradition changing , if at all , at no more than a snail 's pace . |
| 28 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 29 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 30 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |