Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 2 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 3 | J.T. Murphy saw this as marking a definite departure from the limited aims of the League . |
| 4 | However , we are very keen to encourage centres not to interpret this as meaning a separate assessment instrument for every outcome . |
| 5 | Some see this as indicating a constant relegation battle come the winds of March , but I believe it is only from such a lowly position , lulling opponents into a false sense of security , that we can wreak havoc on the rest of the League . |
| 6 | Better that than spending a miserable lifetime in the Windsor soup … |
| 7 | What better way to achieve that than having a top overseas player ? |
| 8 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 9 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 10 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 11 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 12 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 13 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 14 | She brought from under her shawl an untidy sheaf of documents and handed them to Emily without so much as bobbing a polite curtsy . |
| 15 | Repair was very expensive , nearly as much as purchasing a new unit . |
| 16 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 17 | It was an old story , and Nicholas did no more than pull a molasses-type face . |
| 18 | Because ‘ communication ’ is such a wide-ranging subject , this essay can do little more than survey a few distinct areas of study . |
| 19 | For those who know how , doing yoga for half an hour in the morning , or meditating in a darkened room for ten minutes just before giving the speech will assist , or perhaps it will require nothing more than taking a deep breath before you speak . |
| 20 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 21 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 22 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 23 | In running the same course of action is likely to do little more than raise a few curious glances from fellow competitors . |
| 24 | It is now up to Ferguson to prove he is doing something more than repeating a cliched defence . |
| 25 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 26 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 27 | ( No one , of course , believes that the Liberal Democrats can do any more than secure a hung parliament — but there is a very real possibility that this may happen and they are therefore a force to be considered . |
| 28 | You can dish up lavish meals without doing anything more than popping a ready meal in the microwave . |
| 29 | Of course , the ability to think divergently does not guarantee creativity , any more than does a high IQ . |
| 30 | John Major will need to do more than provide a discreet crossing from worthy words to anti-social acts . |