Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 2 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 3 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 4 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 5 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 8 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 9 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 10 | Mm my feet are sweating now , but , she seems to have a bug in there or summat , cos it 's more like a burning than a sweat , it |
| 11 | It was some player indeed who could unleash a power-drive with a ball that was more like a cannon-ball than a football ! |
| 12 | Betty thought he looked more like a gipsy than a minister — ; a good gypsy . |
| 13 | Edward felt like a colonial or a schoolboy , and it irked . |
| 14 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 15 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 16 | The effect of both these procedures is that the defaulting party has 21 days in which to make the payment , following which the party making the demand can present a bankruptcy petition against an individual or a winding-up petition against a company . |
| 17 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 19 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 20 | I am going to offer , more as a case-study than a prescription , my own thoughts about what education ought to be , and what kind of ‘ schooling ’ would be an appropriate channel for its delivery . |
| 21 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 22 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 23 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 24 | So , for example , we 've got a positive with a negative , then we have a positive with a positive , a negative with a negative and a negative with a positive . |
| 25 | Steve came in with a danish and a cup of coffee and I 'm thinking |
| 26 | It is possible to have lawyers ' time recorded on Psions or directly into a terminal but a compromise is for lawyers to complete time sheets manually that are then inputted by a member of the accounts team on to computer . |
| 27 | Reed was built on an overgenerous scale , bull-necked and bulging in his grey pinstripe ; Wycliffe , slight of build , and rather pale , was more likely to be taken for an academic than a policeman ; hard to believe that he had served a tough apprenticeship on the beat in a Midland city . |
| 28 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 29 | For all the earthy language and talk of struggles to come , it sounded more like community singing in a bomb-shelter than a call to arms . |
| 30 | Erm , you know , we all deal with people , who either on a personal or a business level who we genuinely feel the world would be a better place without . |