Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do not dismiss the risk of something much worse than a ‘ meaningful downturn ’ . |
| 2 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 3 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 4 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 5 | But Anne is unlikely to wear white and will almost certainly opt for something less formal than a traditional wedding gown for the ceremony at Crathie Church near Balmoral . |
| 6 | HOW TO WRITE A LETTER to Feedback ( R4 ) , rule one : always be incandescent with rage about something so minor that a normal person would not even notice it , let alone write to complain . |
| 7 | After 17 years of first-class cricket with nothing more serious than a broken finger or two , he chased a ball into the outfield while playing for Devon against Berkshire at Reading and fell awkwardly , breaking his ankle . |
| 8 | They lay their eggs in these chalices and there the young go through their entire development , sharing their pool with nothing more dangerous than a few innocuous insect larvae . |
| 9 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 10 | As matters stand , some 27.4 per cent of my sexuality is of the Grecian or musical persuasion ; 71.6 prefers a quiet evening in with nothing more erotic than a gardening magazine and a steaming mug of Mr Horlicks 's malted beverage , whilst the remaining one per cent has become attached to one of Miss Esther Rantzen 's saucy root vegetables . |
| 11 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 12 | His deftness with something as prosaic as a cotton bud and bottle of adrenalin might not be everybody 's idea of art , but is certainly artful . |
| 13 | Severe degradation and melting of the reactor 's core was regarded as something that was virtually impossible given that the plant was designed to cope with something as extreme as a guillotine break in a main coolant pipe . |
| 14 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 15 | Recalling that Freeborn was recovering from nothing more serious than a successful operation for varicose veins , he approached the bed and said tentatively : |
| 16 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 17 | A first flight in something as eccentric as a microlight will leave an impression that is indelible however hard you may try to forget it . |
| 18 | Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath . |
| 19 | There were the usual circulars , a few invitations to nothing very exciting and a batch of bills . |
| 20 | We would like you to join us for dinner , meet our friends , enjoy a glass of wine or two over something as simple as a plate of pasta , or as extravagant as a six course meal . |
| 21 | The next day , finding it difficult to concentrate on anything as mundane as a punitive airstrike against Gaddafi , he called Evelyn Starnes , managing editor of Mutual Radio , in Arlington , Virginia . |
| 22 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 23 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 24 | In the poem you are about to hear , the famous poet , William Wordsworth tells us that the day we lose the ability to marvel at something as wonderful as a rainbow , we lose something very important . |
| 25 | On a glorious day like this , who could wish for anything more delightful than a walk in the park and a chance to share the secrets of Rainbow 's heart ? |
| 26 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 27 | Perhaps by something as ordinary as a British Telecom radio-pager . |