Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
2 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
3 | I must say it 's pretty funny that a chap like him ends up playing a Jesuit priest having doctrinal disputes in the rain forest . |
4 | Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after . |
5 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
6 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
7 | And by his side , with his shoulders straight , his head held high and a smile on his lips , walked young Colin ! |
8 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
9 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
10 | Yeah this geezer who 's doing this cos a lot of his songs are like , it 's like vocal , like the vocal version to these sort of like stuff about Jamaica throw away your guns and sort of |
11 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
12 | Today the climate is totally different and a number of us can make some money from athletics — enough , at least , to enable us to devote all our time to it . |
13 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
14 | ‘ Another told me he had a dream , there was a fountain and it had a name , clear as a bell in his dream : Jouvence . |
15 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
16 | Any evidence , whether actual or a product of your subconscious , comes from you yourself and is not simply given to you by another person who might or might not know what he is talking about . |
17 | Generally speaking , however , in normal flight the wing ( or coupled wings ) moves in a path such that a point on its surface describes an irregular loop or an elongate figure-of-eight with respect to the wing-base , the long axis of the plane of vibration being inclined at an angle to the long axis of the insect ( Fig. 38 ) while the angle at which the surface of the wing is held changes throughout the cycle . |
18 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
19 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
20 | He was appalled that I wanted to study English and history , both of which he thought not only pointless but a danger to my identity . |
21 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
22 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
23 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
24 | ‘ If you think I 'd dream of sharing so much as a blanket with you after that you 're crazy ! ’ |
25 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
26 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
27 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
28 | No commercially-made version gives so much as a hint of its true nature . ) |
29 | Lisa had flung out through the door without so much as a glance at him , and on legs made of rubber had fled to the lift . |
30 | As she watched him leave , without so much as a glance in her direction , such a feeling of desolation had swept over Isabel that she had almost cried out . |