Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this would be easier for you — a middle-aged man is more likely to find someone attractive than a middle-aged woman — but if I am prepared to accept this disadvantage , why should you grumble ? |
| 2 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 3 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 4 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 5 | Those two years had also made her wiser and a darn sight more wary so , vulnerable or not , there was no way she would risk another close encounter of the erotic kind . |
| 6 | The Dobermann really came into its own as a domestic dog in the 1980s and , subsequently , far too many were bred . |
| 7 | Susan sets up a business on her own as a sole proprietorship and has the following balance sheet at the end of year one . |
| 8 | Lily 's hand fluttered negatively in her own and a harrowed smile , fleeting as a wind 's breath , stirred her lips and then they stretched back again into a tense , bloodless rictus . |
| 9 | The field in which the claims of individual commercialism come into most immediate conflict with reputable notions of social values is that of health … no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means … |
| 10 | Who better than a renegade aristocrat to revel in man 's proximity to animals — hence all those feline females and canine males . |
| 11 | We are seeing , in this development , none other than a new embodiment of the idea of an academic community , and one that is at the heart of the higher education enterprise . |
| 12 | ‘ This clot , ’ boomed the Headmistress , pointing the riding-crop at him like a rapier , ‘ this black-head , this foul carbuncle , this poisonous pustule that you see before you is none other than a disgusting criminal , a denizen of the underworld , a member of the Mafia ! ’ |
| 13 | Li'l Abner — without the colour of the comic strip in the Sunday paper — seemed bogus , and bogus hillbilly at that ; but David and Earl , both schooled in the macho preference for raucous art , liked nothing better than a bogus barnyard . |
| 14 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 15 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 16 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 17 | Nothing better than a smoothed way through Customs and Immigration , and ready transportation for the trip into a new city . |
| 18 | THEY were a typical Seventies university football team — boozy , rowdy , long-haired fun-lovers who liked nothing better than a riotous party . |
| 19 | They seem to assume that because my act is a bit obscene , I 'll like nothing better than a bigoted belly-laugh . |
| 20 | But then there was the question of replacing Susy , without James running himself ragged with the thousand-and-one chicks who wanted nothing better than a quick hop in the bed with a world star . |
| 21 | Cue for a queen : Spanish-born Fabiola of Belgium likes nothing better than a quiet game of billiards at home |
| 22 | My beautiful bike did everything cleverer than a clever cowboy 's horse , with me in the saddle . |
| 23 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 24 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 25 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 26 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 27 | An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features . |
| 28 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 29 | Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official . |
| 30 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |