Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 2 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 3 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |
| 4 | The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time . |
| 5 | The Accommodation Office can usually fix you up with somewhere to stay ( especially if you visit during the University summer vacation ) and it will be much cheaper than a hotel ! |
| 6 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 7 | It must be immediately obvious that such arguments will be somewhat confused unless a definition of development can be agreed . |
| 8 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 9 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 10 | It noted the possibility that in theory the interests of the partners might be so separated that a blanket restriction on competition would be unreasonable but rejected the contention that the mere fact of administrative departmentalisation could lead to that result . |
| 11 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 12 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 13 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 14 | Oversights can be extremely costly and a microcomputer model carefully constructed will not allow oversights to occur . |
| 15 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 16 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 17 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 18 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |
| 19 | POLICE in Cleveland last night warned people depositing cash to be extra vigilant after a company director was robbed outside a bank . |
| 20 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 21 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 22 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 23 | Little can be more disreputable than a Government who hang on to their jobs while pursuing policies that guarantee that thousands of other people will lose theirs . |
| 24 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 25 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 26 | The Language Master is likely to be more successful than a wall-chart , because the child hears the word as well as seeing it . |
| 27 | Moreover , it is the doctor-counsellor as much as anyone else who needs to ask these questions , for often spending time considering these aspects of ill-health might be more helpful than a prescription for drugs . |
| 28 | Now that winter 's coming on , what would be more appropriate than a programme about low temperatures ? |
| 29 | However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information . |
| 30 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |