Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 2 | Jay gags , this is where love has brought me , rooting through the bins like a vagrant , looking for a sheet of high-gloss photographic paper and a bad profile shot of Lucy smaller than a postage stamp . |
| 3 | No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order . |
| 4 | So that fellow Smallholders can each exchange their Smallholding and responsibilities with like minded anywhere in the country for little expense other than a registration fee , cost of food and petrol to get there . |
| 5 | In exactly the same way , an atom such as a halogen atom in a covalent molecule can show spin-orbit coupling . |
| 6 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 8 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 9 | In a show of unity rarer than a dodo sighting , the US Big Six have issued a joint statement of position in an attempt to focus attention on the ‘ epidemic of litigation ’ that is beginning to threaten the very existence of many American firms . |
| 10 | When choosing dowel at any place other than a kite store which would have selected its stock , rotate the spar between thumb and forefinger of one hand while resting the dowel in the other hand and check that the spar is straight . |
| 11 | Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light . |
| 12 | Five Turkish sailors were killed and 18 were injured on Oct. 1 when a US aircraft carrier , the Saratoga , accidentally fired two missiles during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) exercise in the Aegean , one of which hit a Turkish destroyer , the Muavenet . |
| 13 | the charge to call an O eight nine eight number from any phone other than a pay phone is thirty six pence per minute at cheap rate and forty eight per minute at all other times , over half of this money is paid by B T to the business providing the informational service |
| 14 | A failure on the part — ( a ) of a police officer to comply with any provision of such a code ; or ( b ) of any person other than a police officer who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders to have regard to any relevant provision of such a code in the discharge of that duty , shall not of itself render him liable to any criminal or civil proceedings . |
| 15 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 16 | Two video cameras were being used in the cabin when failures occurred in the flight-mode annunciator No 2 whilst a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was taxiing . |
| 17 | Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 18 | Sarajevo airport was closed on Dec. 1 after a UN plane was hit by small-arms fire and remained closed for three weeks due to fighting . |
| 19 | Dangling from the hook came a length of rope and a piece of leather larger than a dog collar , large enough , indeed , to have fitted a goat . |
| 20 | It 's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk , especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller — you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine . |
| 21 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 22 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 23 | The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state . |
| 24 | Did n't we do it on ano on another situation where we 're basically saying it 's a system problem more than a plan problem . |
| 25 | Save as provided in the said regulation 36 and without derogation from the provisions of the last preceding paragraph of this regulation , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade licence , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence for a purpose other than a business purpose and other than one of the following purposes : |
| 26 | Formulary procedure had known no judgment other than a money judgment , but the extraordinary procedure was free from this traditional restraint , for it was based on quite different principles . |
| 27 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |