Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case I would see that the sensible thing to do , which is what we have done , is to assume that the current vacancy rate stays the same as a percentage and that with a larger dwelling stock , results in some additional vacant dwellings . |
| 2 | It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars . |
| 3 | A decision is not really the same as a choice although the two are very often confused . |
| 4 | In other words a fat calorie was exactly the same as a carbohydrate or a protein calorie . |
| 5 | The period around the 12th is likely to bring negative responses or sour grapes , culminating with the Full Moon on the 16th when an argument or heart-to-heart will take place . |
| 6 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 7 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 8 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 9 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 10 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 11 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 12 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 13 | It looked no larger than a pin when it finally hit the surface without a sound , and disappeared . |
| 14 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 15 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
| 16 | The challenge became even greater with the advent of 45rpm discs , which had to be provided with an ‘ optional centre ’ no less than an inch and a half in diameter for quick-acting autochange and juke-box mechanisms . |
| 17 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 18 | Now another life was about to begin , one in which she was no more than a surname and number , a woman who had lifted her hand in salute and sworn allegiance to King and country . |
| 19 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 20 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 21 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 22 | Attlee during his Washington visit of 4 – 5 December 1950 had been able to elicit no more than a promise that Britain would be kept informed of any developments which might lead to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 24 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 25 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 26 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 27 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 28 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 29 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 30 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |