Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equal-span wings were of three-bay biplane configuration had some dihedral but no stagger and measured 97ft tip-to-tip . |
| 2 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 3 | Usually damages will be much less than the price and the seller also has the inconvenience of having to find another buyer . |
| 4 | Why has Mr Kohl spoken out now after keeping quiet ever since last year 's German unity treaty , which named Berlin as capital but left open where the government and parliament should be ? |
| 5 | ‘ The Larceny Act 1916 required that the taking and carrying away should be ‘ without the consent of the owner . ’ |
| 6 | The English have ten sixty six and the Armada and the Swiss have William Tell , well what are the landmarks of Kuwaiti history ? |
| 7 | It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches . |
| 8 | In analogy with the direct Wheatstone bridge circuit , high sensitivity is obtained when the arm impedances Z 1 , Z 2 , Z 3 and Z 4 are all equal and the source and detector also present this same impedance . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union had remained a Utopian ideal to the Left even during the vicissitudes of the late 1920s and the collectivization and famine during the First Five Year Plan . |
| 10 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 11 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 12 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 13 | In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars . |
| 14 | A settlement was reached in 1972 , but in the 1980s , as the devolution of power to the south became little more than a façade and the economic situation deteriorated , the separatist movement re-emerged . |
| 15 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 16 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | Gradually , she found herself being turned into something between a useful servant and a source of relief ; a person who was little more than a housekeeper and temporary mistress . |
| 18 | She is fifteen years his junior , and little more than a housekeeper and unpaid bedslave . |
| 19 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |
| 20 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 21 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 22 | Lengthier ones such as those in support of specific discovery are not suited and the standard part becomes little more than the top and tail . |
| 23 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 24 | The method is to select at least two comparison stars , one brighter than the variable and the other fainter . |
| 25 | Wally , Wally I 'm sorry to interrupt you , colleagues , you 're starting to babble a bit , I know you all want to get to the European Fair and the wine and the cheese and all that sort of thing just bear with us for about ten minutes . |
| 26 | Even though the universe would have zero size at the North and South Poles , these points would not be singularities , any more than the North and South Poles on the earth are singular . |
| 27 | The flexibility of the artefact indicated in the deliberately wide range of examples provided should not , however , lead the reader to assume an arbitrary or unsystematic use , any more than the flexibility and uniqueness of languages excludes the possibility of linguistic analysis . |
| 28 | It is not , any more than the swing- and quiver-tip are not the answer to everything . |
| 29 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 30 | Higher , higher rate , rate , well you do n't start to pay that until you 've exceeded the twenty three thousand seven hundred plus your personal allowance , so y you your basic rate of tax goes to twenty three seven hundred then you can add , add on your basic allowance , and for most people if they 're earning er a single person twenty seven and a half and married person twenty eight and a half above that you 're paying higher rate tax . |