Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A man and woman who freely and willingly engage in anal intercourse are thus as guilty of buggery as a man who perpetrates a violent anal attack . |
2 | Stansfield 's own personal antipathy to medical involvement in the contagious diseases acts , together with his ignorance of scientific matter she knew as much of science as a cow does of conic sections , according to one contemporary — may have exacerbated Simon 's problems at the board . |
3 | The upper wing was as bare of fabric as a garden gate . |
4 | ‘ Well , ’ said Liese , who was now engaged to a nice young architect called Leonard , and who was proud and plump and stuffed as full of delight as a feather cushion — over-stuffed , Brenda remarked ‘ I suppose it 's better to believe in something than nothing . |
5 | and as full of suspense as a wasp . |
6 | Because , look at , I 'm not , you know , I 'm not er gon na even talk about the disaster at airport things , you know , the taking off and landing , if you 've got a stadium nearby with a lot of people in it , and one of these disasters happened to happen , I know we 're not looking for that , but if it does , you 're gon na have a stadium full of people if a plane comes down , well , you know . |
7 | Sea animals take full advantage of the efficient passage of sound through water , and the ocean is as full of sound as a woodland in spring . |
8 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
9 | MOST Californians are outsiders over half have travelled thousands of miles for a place in the sun . |