Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard disputed this before the king in 1247 , and was still in pursuit of justice in July 1248 . |
| 2 | In Cumbria , said Redfern , the ‘ height increment [ growth ] does appear to have fallen off markedly since about 1975/6 … down as much as a quarter in recent years . ’ |
| 3 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 4 | As she watched him leave , without so much as a glance in her direction , such a feeling of desolation had swept over Isabel that she had almost cried out . |
| 5 | Savouring the sweet taste of his victory , he did not even acknowledge the Controller 's presence by so much as a glance in his direction . |
| 6 | It all became too much as a woman in the crowd shouted : ‘ We love you , Di . ’ |
| 7 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 8 | Once again the importance of style needs to be stressed , given that the poundage you lift does not matter as much as the way in which you lift it . |
| 9 | The richest in the land can pay only three times as much as the person in the most lowly valued , difficult-to-let council house . |
| 10 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 11 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 12 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 13 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 14 | What the first bit of that cos the thing in your mouth . |
| 15 | The presumption probably only operates where the conveyancing history of the land is unknown , and may not operate at all where the land in question is part of a building estate ( Giles v County Building Constructors ( Hertford ) Ltd ( 1971 ) 22 P & CR 978 ) . |
| 16 | In 1791 the Windsor theatre , then no more than a shed in a muddy field , was bought from Francis Waldron [ q.v. ] , writer and actor . |
| 17 | This little rose was seldom more than a foot in height and bore deep purple hips , ‘ inclining to black when ripe ’ . |
| 18 | Private Eye was flourishing , and even advertising in It its discreet ‘ God Is Love ’ , ‘ Karl Marx ’ , and ‘ Marquis de Sade ’ T-shirts under the slogan ‘ Plug in turn on freak out with Private Eye ’ , but this was little more than a wobble in that paper 's progress — and a chance for a satirical quick buck . |
| 19 | And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command . |
| 20 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 21 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The theological implications of such a recognition were profound , and required far more than a change in regulations . |
| 24 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 25 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
| 26 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
| 27 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 28 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 29 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 30 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |