Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 2 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 3 | Honeysuckle likes its feet in the shade and head in the sunshine ; grown in too sunny or too warm a place , it becomes infested with greenfly , blackfly , caterpillars and red spider mite . |
| 4 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 5 | You know , if we had something too patterned or too dark the wood wo n't |
| 6 | You strike me as a basically good-natured and decent girl , and if I can be of assistance in putting you back on the right path , I shall be happy to oblige , so long as you do not expect too lengthy or too frequent an exchange . |