Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 2 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 3 | He was only four and a half when his father died . |
| 4 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 5 | Bill were not more than a baby when his brother Harold died . |
| 6 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 7 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 8 | ‘ You want to punish me , ’ she corrected him intensely , her voice little more than a whisper as the conviction lodged itself more securely in her consciousness . |
| 9 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 10 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
| 11 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 12 | But , she was as nervous as a kitten because we were , we were in a one of these Canadian type er |
| 13 | I 'll be as bald as a coot if you go on like that . |
| 14 | No , I as flat as a pancake until I had her ! |
| 15 | In terms of an apparently satisfactory way of explaining what goes on we are far less confident than in the good old days of AIDA — but at least we know that AIDA was as inadequate as a theory as her operatic namesake was ill-starred in love . |
| 16 | But erm I , I think a midwife , a good midwife , is every bit as good as a doctor because she 's doing it all the time . |
| 17 | Brett weighed a mere 1lb 5oz and was as short as a watchstrap when he was born seventeen weeks early . |
| 18 | Besides none of us ever knew the whole story , even though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you came to think about it . |
| 19 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 20 | Although your husband 's penis does n't have a bone in it ( at least not unless he 's a badger or something ) , it does become almost as stiff as a bone when he 's excited . |
| 21 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 22 | Her hands had been as steady as a rock until David mentioned Donna 's birth , and Juliet 's on the same day , and Thorn House — |
| 23 | My face was as red as a tomato as I was shown to my seat . |
| 24 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |