Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those making a decision need also to have in mind that , whilst an electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance , its life expectancy is at present shorter than that of a pipe organ . |
| 2 | Other fathers were often unemployed and jealous of a child bringing home a weekly wage : understandable if they had a daughter like Dolly Ashby : |
| 3 | The precise level will be dictated by your setting-out with the tiling gauge , but will usually be between half and three-quarters of a tile width above the skirting board . |
| 4 | But in its way it is more exciting and more of a challenge than the current enthusiasm for plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading . |
| 5 | The expectation that the Afro-Caribbean and Asian minorities would simply blend into a homogeneous British or even English stew , perhaps adding some harmless spice , was revealed as not only hopelessly unrealistic but symptomatic of a form of racism which regarded ‘ Britishness ’ and ‘ Westernness ’ as the only touchstones of cultural value . |
| 6 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 7 | It is possible that some of a company 's shareholders will have interests , for example , as employees or customers , that are distinct from their investment interest in the business . |
| 8 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 9 | Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid . |
| 10 | The amounts required for clothing and housing were also set lower than those of a person of working age . |
| 11 | HCS member Ali Haroun said in Brussels on Feb. 26 that half of a total of 50 people killed had been members of the army and gendamerie . |
| 12 | In the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve — a portrayal which leans heavily on conventional attitudes of hostility towards the lords ' men , the peasant officials amongst the peasants , in medieval English satire — the Reeve is presented as a man who provokes suspicion and fear : and as a man who , by being identifiable as one of a type rather than an individual , attracts the prejudices associated with that type . |
| 13 | If the process of learning to conquer the impulses to self-gratification seems too painful to be borne , the author reminds the sisters that ultimately a complaint will seem as misguided as that of a prisoner thrown a bag of money to buy his release who moans that the bag hit and bruised him . |
| 14 | It is true that 1759 could represent the beginning of a copying effort that extended over several years , but the appearance neat , professional and all of a piece does not support such a hypothesis . |
| 15 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 16 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 17 | it was a terrible and all of a sudden this man said , I 'll be jiggered ! |
| 18 | I do n't have to stand here baring my soul in order to make you feel better and less of a victim ! |
| 19 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 20 | To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) . |
| 21 | A business approach to fashion The long and short of a day at the office |
| 22 | The long and short of a day at the office |
| 23 | The impact of this slavering beast on an enemy formation is just as effective as that of a Knight with a lance . |
| 24 | I see the latter as symbolic of a process which has been described variously as ‘ attribution ’ or ‘ definition ’ . |
| 25 | The need for the council to be able to protect its reputation by an action for libel is , with proper regard to the public interest , at least as great as that of a trading corporation or a trade union . |
| 26 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 27 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 28 | Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms . |
| 29 | Where a minor is sued for a liquidated sum , which includes the cost of repairs to a vehicle or to any property in , on , or abutting a highway ( Ord 1 , r 10 ) , the court may on the plaintiff 's application dispense with the appointment under Ord 10 , rr 6 or 7 of a guardian ( Ord 10 , r 8(1) ) . |
| 30 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |