Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) .
2 My village forest was not so large , about 100 hectares , but there were many big trees of more than a metre diameter .
3 But the stats do indicate certain things , such as that Tom Kite was the worst putter on Tour last year ( at least among those with more than a golf game ) , that Mark Calcavecchia was the best all-round player in America , his critics be damned .
4 Bosnich made three appearance for United before a work permit problem forced him to return home to Australia .
5 But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door .
6 He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher .
7 Fothergill says his company 's reputation has been built on a philosophy that views a lift as more than a metal cabin ; rather something which can add value to a building .
8 The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism .
9 She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years !
10 Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] .
11 A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war .
12 Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse .
13 What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk .
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