Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 2 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |
| 3 | Apart from seeing the replacement of LNER-design inner-suburban Class 306s , Colchester , Southend , Bishop 's Stortford , Hertford and Chingford-line travellers will have to wait until the 1990s for their new stock . |
| 4 | The dragon was the same as her wild longings , her fierce and stubborn courage , her desire to fly . |
| 5 | Monetary assets and liabilities are also shown at historic cost , though in many cases the historic cost of a monetary item is the same as its current cost . |
| 6 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 7 | At first sight , it may appear that the value of aggregate demand for a country should be the same as its national expenditure . |
| 8 | The CsA carbon atoms of each CsA are coloured the same as its bound CypA molecule . |
| 9 | Well , I should imagine they 're just the same as their normal ones , and they 've stuck a , a whacking great white label on them , but I mean , you know , perhaps they 're of an inferior quality , I do n't know . |
| 10 | The last public polls , published last weekend , showed the alliance of the two main Right Wing parties with 38-39 per cent of the vote and the Socialists with 18-21 per cent — almost exactly the same as their respective positions at the beginning of January . |
| 11 | Desmond Morris interprets the behaviour of domesticated horses , and reveals it as being much the same as their wild ancestors . |
| 12 | ‘ About the same as your instinctive reaction … guarded doubt . |
| 13 | You would then compare this with the actual price on your island , and depending upon whether your actual price is higher , lower or the same as your expectation of the average price you would supply a quantity of output which is higher , lower or the same as your natural level . |
| 14 | Yeah , the same as my old man , but |
| 15 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 16 | Kinnock scored only 61 per cent in the pre-campaign week — the same as his average score across all image aspects . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , that is what I tell myself … but it would not be the same as his own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 18 | At first it sounds the same as our earlier description of the positive value of doubt . |
| 19 | Okay , well we will come back and we 'll go through all the proposed because our last item is our longest item . |
| 20 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 21 | But the negatives , each no bigger than his little fingernail , were totally meaningless to the naked eye . |
| 22 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 23 | That young Galloway ai n't no better than 'is ole man . |
| 24 | Later this month Sam Torrance will set out from his home in Largs to embark on no less than his 20th season on the PGA European Tour . |
| 25 | In the process earlier holistic concepts of healing associated with women healers were eclipsed by an atomistic approach which reduced patients to no more than their dysfunctioning parts . |
| 26 | He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ . |
| 27 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 28 | Henry Leland was 74 when he won a contract to supply Liberty engines , with no more than his technical know-how , reputation and a factory site as collateral . |
| 29 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 30 | If your income is no higher than your personal allowance ( or total of these allowances ) , you will not have to pay any income tax . |