Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 2 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 3 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 4 | Although never more than a competent actress , she was an extremely decorative and popular one , at her best in plays about upper-class society . |
| 5 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 6 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 7 | This was Cultra , where an introduction was de rigueur before so much as a cocktail could be taken . |
| 8 | The budget was attacked by opposition leaders as highly inflationary and a " command budget of the IMF " . |
| 9 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |
| 10 | In terms of the acceptance of law and order , the bulk of the catholic — nationalist remnant form a part of the civil society of Northern Ireland , though as much as a third of the remnant can defect from this consensus , as when supporting the Provisionals over the ‘ H ’ -Block prison issue . |
| 11 | The latter , with its emphasis on drug use as victimless , and youthful deviance as relatively harmless and a form of generational and gender-based continuity in working-class families , is clearly in need of revision . |