Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 2 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 3 | It is not clear whether a member of the United Nations , a third party to a conflicting treaty , can demand performance of the Charter by bringing a claim against the conclusion or performance of the conflicting treaty . |
| 4 | In the nick of time , fresh as a daisy despite the punishing schedule , he arrives , the gear is set up , and I 'm on . |
| 5 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 6 | Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings . |
| 7 | Tax is about as popular as a trip to the dentist or a dose of malaria . |
| 8 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 9 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 10 | As harmful as a mixing of the flows is masturbation . |
| 11 | it is more private than a hearing in the civil courts — the press and public are not entitled to be present |
| 12 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 13 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 14 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 15 | Subsequent learning about the pre-exposed stimulus will then be impossible until a discrepancy between the values of λ and V is established ( as will happen when the US is introduced at the start of the conditioning phase of a latent inhibition experiment ) so that the value of α will be increased for the next trial . |
| 16 | All next day she called and she hunted , but no trace of her baby could she discover , not so much as a footprint on the sand . |
| 17 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 18 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 19 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 20 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 21 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 22 | Tearing along the dotted line on roads and motorways without so much as a glance at the Highway Code . |
| 23 | It all became too much as a woman in the crowd shouted : ‘ We love you , Di . ’ |
| 24 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 25 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 26 | Again , the spotlight has been on men — a reflection of the place of women in the arts as much as a marker of the unacceptability of lesbianism . |
| 27 | Her cheeks made minute undulations until , without so much as a quiver throughout the rest of her body , she fired a perfectly formed spitball which smacked my lip , swelled , slid down to my mouth . |
| 28 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 29 | His voice quiet but as winding as a blow in the solar plexus , he invited , ‘ Tell me more about your mother , Luce . ’ |
| 30 | Langston Hughes , the black poet Weill chose to write the lyrics for Street Scene , puts it pithily : Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon . |