Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable . |
| 2 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 5 | The body 's digestive processes are less efficient when a person is lying down and indigestion may result . |
| 6 | So remote that a bargepole is more use to a traveller than a British Rail season ticket when the London train breaks down . |
| 7 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 8 | Here semi-formal learning still takes place in semi-formal learning centres , heavily intermediated by each learner 's powerful , portable , personal micro , a machine no more costly than a calculator is now . |
| 9 | In the case of a company delivery is still necessary and a document is presumed to have been delivered on its execution unless the contrary is proved . |
| 10 | They regard the screen/keyboard interface as no more unnatural than a book is to earlier generations . |
| 11 | Hopelessly inadequate if a pond is to contain fish but , Lou insisted , quite enough to cover the shins of a bathing nuthatch . |
| 12 | Balance is also important if a display is to achieve the desired effect . |
| 13 | Such trade is clearly beneficial when a country is able to import a commodity it could not possibly produce itself . |
| 14 | It 's also true that a company is judged by the people it keeps . |
| 15 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 16 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 17 | A knight broke through on his way to a local joust or tournament , his steel codpiece carved as large as a bull 's whilst the helmet which swung from his saddle bow was fashioned in the macabre mask of a hangman . |
| 18 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 19 | There she sat , in her familiar party outfit , an eccentric , much-worn , embroidered Chinese garment , her neat , solidly cut , smartly sloping black hair as tidy as a doll 's , looking perhaps faintly Chinese rather than Jewish , diminutive as she was , and with those high cheek-bones : and there sat Alix , also by Charles 's standards impoverished , though not by her own , which were more austere . |
| 20 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 21 | A diving whale may store more than 40 per cent of its oxygen intake in its muscles , far more than a human is capable of . |
| 22 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 23 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 24 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 25 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |
| 26 | Accuracy is of course particularly important when a builder is engaged in small works and uses the cost records to prepare the final account and sales invoice for the client . |
| 27 | As the spirit of the Code prevails over the letter , the General Principles are particularly relevant where a situation is not specifically covered by a rule or a note . |
| 28 | THE offer for shares in long distance coach giant National Express is twice over-subscribed and a premium is on the cards when dealings start next Thursday . |
| 29 | ‘ The truth is , my darling husband , I 'm almost sure that a baby is on the horizon — rather sooner than you think ! |
| 30 | That is certainly possible but a penalty is exacted for it . |