Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was the ocean that Vasco Núñez de Balboa had found — an immensity quite unimaginable but a void which , he must have known , was now no longer unbridgeable . |
| 2 | It is equally an offence to administer drugs to a woman for a similar purpose or to procure a girl under 21 or a defective to have sexual intercourse with a third party in any part of the world . |
| 3 | I mean you 'll work out whether it 's a bit more reactive or a bit less . |
| 4 | Christmas dinner around the dining table will be rare treat and John says : ‘ Now the children are growing up , we hope they 'll be a bit more sensible and a bit less like unguided missiles . ’ |
| 5 | She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own . |
| 6 | 1.20:DAVID Elsworth 's Muse heads the market due to a brave success from Morley Street over two and a half here last month . |
| 7 | This all sounds rather daunting but a number of teachers have received grants under the sponsored research programme , the most notable example being Andrew Mellor and his study of bullying in Scottish secondary schools . |
| 8 | I looked along a line of patients and recognized a back still straight and a head still proudly held . |
| 9 | Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run . |
| 10 | Kinnock too lightweight and a clown , slipping on the beach . |
| 11 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |
| 12 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 13 | O'Rourke sells a lot more than Hot Press , he is a lot more entertaining and a hell of a lot more sincere , and I bet that O'Rourke makes a lot more money than the po-faced , sanctimonious utterances on plebs , puffs , poetry and Provos from the likes of gobshites like Higgins , McCann et al will ever generate . |
| 14 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 15 | I love them Terry Either that or a labrador . |
| 16 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 17 | It would only cost the the B T very small and a telephone unit . |