Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I lost my six and a half stone |
| 2 | My two and a quarter petrol 1981 SWB would have needed an expensive conversion to run on unleaded petrol so I am using Carbonflo instead . |
| 3 | Can you tell me the year of manufacture of my two and a quarter petrol engine number 90110300A . |
| 4 | To achieve more power for towing in my two and a quarter petrol County , I want to fit a Rover 3.5 SD1 engine . |
| 5 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 6 | This section of the towpath was about six feet wide , with the riverside cottages to their left and an iron railing to the right . |
| 7 | Used on their own as a research method they have limitations but , within these , much can be achieved . |
| 8 | Sonny had been Thailand 's foremost classical dancing teacher , with a school of her own and a television programme . |
| 9 | Carrie had Nick 's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle . |
| 10 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 11 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 12 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 13 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 14 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 15 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 16 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 17 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 18 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 19 | as something other than a Poetry book . |
| 20 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 21 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
| 22 | She had allowed him to entice her into what was , to him , nothing more than a seduction scene , where she had been primed and ripe for the taking . |
| 23 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 24 | It was generally felt that the legislation was nothing more than a publicity exercise , carried out under severe pressure from the USA and the Free State government . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a single , rather flippant sentence in a book of 100,000 words — nothing more than a throwaway line . ’ |
| 26 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 27 | Then , he had been quite amused and content to joke about being nothing more than a flower bearer , but he was not so happy when it became a regular occurrence . |
| 28 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 29 | Thus , it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right . |
| 30 | It was ‘ nothing more than a clearing house for sexually disturbed cranks , the biggest of whom is Emmanuel Petrakis … |