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

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1 The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube .
2 Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper
3 With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 .
4 Bentley is Back And now more than just a badge 16
5 It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth .
6 The weather is beautiful : clear , sunny and still a bit cold .
7 A world in fact in which the stuff itself — the coins , the notes — seemed barely relevant and indeed a trifle indecent .
8 The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 .
9 As Maggie turns , I catch a flash of eye , fairy blue but just a bit milky .
10 Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought .
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