Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 2 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 3 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 4 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 5 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 6 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 7 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 8 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 9 | Like their big relatives the Orcs , Goblins vary in size although they are typically smaller than Orcs and usually smaller than a man . |
| 10 | Among the Nez Perce and Crow people , pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow ‘ stronger , tougher , more elastic , and more durable than a bow of any other materials ’ . |
| 11 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 12 | In a work of art this is a powerful coup because it compels us to think about why we know this woman must be black , and as an act of protest it is far richer and more powerful than an instruction in how to feel . |
| 13 | A model with a clockwise rotor will already have a slight lean to the right and a turn in that direction will require a greater and more noticeable-bank than a turn to the left . |
| 14 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 15 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 16 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
| 17 | This kind of component is much smaller and more reliable than a valve , which was the earliest form of electronic switch . |
| 18 | This is much faster and more fun if a group of you do it together . |
| 19 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 20 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 22 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 23 | She was beautiful , and as proud as a queen . |
| 24 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 25 | Ezra had neither toughness nor elasticity : he was as rigidly intelligent as a Plymouth brother ; and as vulnerable as a sea-anemone . |
| 26 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 27 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 28 | Its principal hall , which still stands , is as long and as narrow as a ship , with delicately carved kiosks and balconies projecting out over the lake . |
| 29 | She felt small , and as frail as a bird . |
| 30 | Tall , and as strong as a lion . |