Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Physics and chemistry , for example , seen to have had nothing like as much attention from the writers of fiction .
2 But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off .
3 It describes something of quite another order .
4 As long as she approaches everything with as much fascination and energy as she does now , she 'll retain her freshness forever .
5 If the frame is a particularly good one with relatively little damage , it may be worth repairing the problem areas with gold leaf .
6 Another slow bowler , though one with infinitely more experience , is Worcestershire 's Richard Illingworth .
7 Miss Lambe helped him to unpack his books , holding each one with as much reverence as if it had been the Sacrament .
8 Where today , one wonders , would a visiting celebrity be allowed so unceremonial a ceremonial meal , and one with so much character ?
9 I 'd love to do something with hardly any responsibility .
10 Cale also had misgivings about setting Thomas 's poems to music , ‘ because they sound really beautiful and I did n't know whether I could take something with so much noise in them , so much built-in jazz , and maintain it . ’
11 Sadly it was on Flensberg , the first PFF outing that was ruined by the weather , and did nothing to further this founding of target finding/marking .
12 She could n't remember ever having met anyone with quite this capacity for rousing her to anger , she thought abstractedly .
13 I do n't think there was anyone in here this week !
14 Have n't heard anything for quite some time now .
15 That stopped Jessamy saying anything for quite some time , because it was a frighteningly accurate description of how her life had been since their break-up .
16 Freud himself said apropos Totem and Taboo that ‘ I have not written anything with so much conviction since The Interpretation of Dreams .
17 For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate .
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