Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , a person would be a fool to go after something as dangerous as a wounded wolf armed only with sympathy . |
| 2 | The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 5 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 6 | She won £200 , although the coincidence certainly arose from what libel specialist David Hooper calls ‘ nothing more sinister than a half-remembered name lodged in the author 's subconscious ’ . |
| 7 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 8 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 9 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 10 | Two days later , after a peaceful voyage , we disembarked at Calais — a dreadful place , England 's last foothold in France , nothing more than a glorified fortress packed with men-at-arms and archers , who staggered the streets in their boiled leather jerkins , drinking in the many ale houses and generally looking for trouble . |
| 11 | For us , the Sixties were never more than a distant rumour overheard on Radio Caroline . |
| 12 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 13 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 14 | They were soulless little beings , numerous and uniform , no more than a commercial product bred to a standard , and Reynolds was slightly disturbed to find that they did n't evoke any feeling of sympathy from him . |
| 15 | Catesby had told us we had our old chamber in one of the towers but Benjamin insisted that , before we retire , we should examine Moodie 's corpse which had been placed in the death house , no more than a wooden shed built against the walls of the Tower Church , St Peter ad Vincula . |
| 16 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 17 | Although in some branches of the law a defendant may be treated as intending the known inevitable or likely consequences of his act , that is not so here , for it would stretch the tort too far to impose liability where ‘ the reasons which actuate the defendant to use unlawful means are wholly independent of a wish to interfere with the plaintiff 's business , such interference being no more than an incidental consequence foreseen by and gratifying to the defendant . ’ |
| 18 | They were often born limbless because a pharmaceutical company failed to adequately test a product . |
| 19 | A couple of years ago these lanes were far from peaceful when a flash flood swept through the area . |
| 20 | They were standing in the middle of a lecture room surrounded by breathalysers , reaction timers , and tachistoscopes , and being offered nothing more tantalising than a double vodka dispensed into glasses via a chemical measuring jar , and served with a shot of orange juice from a carton . |
| 21 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 22 | Proceedings for the recovery of land , for foreclosure or redemption of a mortgage , for enforcing a charge or lien on land ( other than a charging order made under the Charging Orders Act 1979 ) , or for the recovery of moneys secured by a mortgage or charge on land , must be started in the court where the land or part of it is situated ( Ord 4 , r 3 ) . |
| 23 | IT was a mild shock to discover yesterday that St Valentine 's Day is something other than a jolly wheeze fashioned by the greetings card industry to steal our hearts and an unfair proportion of our wages . |
| 24 | The provisions of paragraphs ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above shall not apply so as to make it unlawful for a motor vehicle to be fitted with an instrument or apparatus other than a two-tone horn designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing members of the public that goods are on the vehicle for sale . |
| 25 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 26 | Mr Broadhurst 's caravan was as unlived-in as an imaginary room constructed to display furniture in a department store . |
| 27 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |