Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you 've effectively got a dead short through an ammeter whereas a a volt meter 's got a a hun , a high er resistance or an open circuit , effectively . |
| 2 | In England , by the later seventeenth century , there had emerged a fairly clear-cut distinction where foreign affairs were concerned between a northern and a southern department , with each of the two secretaries handling relations with the foreign states which fell into one of these geographical divisions . |
| 3 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 5 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 6 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 7 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 8 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 9 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 10 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 11 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 12 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 13 | Lamb rampaged to 50 with a six and a pull for four in the same Su'a over . |
| 14 | How difficult for an imaginative and a sensitive child . |
| 15 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 16 | The living room , the bedrooms , the bathroom , the rooms ’ height and other dimensions are therefore the same in a small or a big town . ’ |
| 17 | HP envisages an on-site upgrade path that requires only a processor swap going , for example , from a 40 to a 50 and a chassis upgrade going from , an F to a G. The F class which HP has poised against Sun reportedly starts at 36 tpsA ; the next performance point is 61 tpcA , available as an F or H , then 88 TPS , followed by 110 tpsA topping out at 184 tpsA . |
| 18 | Changes in money supply from this source are likely to be much greater under a fixed than a floating exchange rate . |
| 19 | Since the 1950s , £16 billion has been spent on nuclear research and development , which is equivalent to a one and a quarter pence tax on each unit of nuclear electricity produced over the years . |
| 20 | The force between two positive charges is repulsive , as is the force between two negative charges , but the force is attractive between a positive and a negative charge . |
| 21 | If a proper return is not so delivered the company is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and a daily default fine so long as the contravention continues . |