Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRAINING FLIGHT HIGH SPEED ARRIVAL TAKING GLIDE SLOPE OR REACHING 1500 ft During training , the high speed arrival must be performed as much as possible on a straight in approach . |
| 2 | In order to gain as much as possible from a lecture or reading a book , it is important to ask questions in order to answer queries as they arise . |
| 3 | No one , on this warm summer afternoon , is so much as visible at a window . |
| 4 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
| 5 | I see the latter as symbolic of a process which has been described variously as ‘ attribution ’ or ‘ definition ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 7 | Never more than competent as a draughtsman himself , Kempe was adept at selecting and training young designers and craftsmen to carry out schemes under his direction . |
| 8 | This is more than adequate for an SLR unit . |
| 9 | We were very , very angry and more than ready for a fight . |
| 10 | I cant remember who they played last night , but I think the win will mean they will be more than happy with a point . |
| 11 | There was slight muddying of some tones , and the bass end could be made so heavy that it wiped out the rest of the mix , but with some careful EQ'ing during mixdown I ended up with a result which would be more than acceptable as a demo tape . |
| 12 | A levels are notoriously less than perfect as a vehicle for showing this . |
| 13 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 14 | Samuel Johnson , the lexicographer and wit was among those who , given the mortality rates of seamen and their privations on board , thought it nothing less than cruel for a father to take Campbell 's advice and commit his son to a life at sea . |