Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1	It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam .
2	Each weekday morning no more than the first three eligible children presenting to the casualty unit were recruited by the study physician ( SW ) , who explained the nature and purpose of the study to parents and obtained their consent .
3	Run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society the five and a quarter mile line came into being after the search for a branch line home elsewhere in Scotland had failed to bring success .
4	Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot .
5	It should be borne in mind , however , that if repeat sequences are to be probed , or if it is known to which chromosome or approximate chromosome region the repetitive or the unique sequences map , procedures can be simplified .
6	We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table .
7	Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ?
8	Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit .
9	They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it .
10	Such politics stress the local or the specific without assuming that they constitute the starting point for a global hegemony into which they will be subsumed .

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