Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 2 | Another agreed : ‘ I found that when the canvassers come to the door , and this is true of all parties I think , on the whole they feel embarrassed if a disabled person goes to the door and they always ask for my husband . ’ |
| 3 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 4 | This is particularly relevant in the case of boys — somehow society seems to think it is appropriate for little girls to shed tears but is embarrassed when a young boy reacts in the same way . |
| 5 | As Derby bade farewell to one striker , they missed out on another when an ambitious move to bring a Colombian World Cup winger to the Baseball Ground fell through . |
| 6 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 7 | Note , too , that once a particular movement has become established , the gyro will try to preserve it . |
| 8 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 9 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 10 | of the tax is payable if a single person lives there . |
| 11 | Lori Garbacz was not quite so fortunate when an open window slammed shut on her hands breaking two of her fingers . |
| 12 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 13 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 14 | As for covering up the work , Crack Wars nees that about as much as an Egyptian mummy needs a paper bag over its head . |
| 15 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 16 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 17 | Still , a person would be a fool to go after something as dangerous as a wounded wolf armed only with sympathy . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's very sad when a noble family dies out , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Only Father Kolbe remained alive until a bored guard gave him a fatal injection of carbolic acid . |
| 20 | It is also far more likely than a reactive search to yield positive results . |
| 21 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 22 | The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion . |
| 23 | I think that imaginary time will come to seem as natural as a round earth does now . |
| 24 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 25 | A friend of mine recently found a beauty that became redundant and unloved when a local school closed down . |
| 26 | Aristotle had implied that an explanation was never complete unless a final cause had been specified . |
| 27 | Some issues are more complex than a television-style presentation allows . |
| 28 | Who better than a renegade aristocrat to revel in man 's proximity to animals — hence all those feline females and canine males . |
| 29 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 30 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |