Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |
2 | ‘ What could be more manly than a man holding a woman in his arms ? ’ |
3 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
4 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
5 | So really , this is no more wonderful than a dolphin learning its way around the complexities of its natural marine environment so that it may find — and catch — the best shoals of fish . |
6 | The Bishop of Greathaven was as stately as a ship heaving landward . |
7 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
8 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
9 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
10 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
11 | She was as tense as a cat stalking a bird . |
12 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
13 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
14 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
15 | Sarah stayed outside a few minutes longer , her spirits lifting wondrously , and she felt as happy as a robin singing among the branches of the oak tree . |
16 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
17 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
18 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
19 | as weightless as a soul making |
20 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |