Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a table at one end where a principal officer and a couple of others sat overseeing the whole lot . |
| 2 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 3 | Yet volcanism is predominantly a submarine rather than a continental phenomenon since the outpouring of magma associated with submarine eruptions far exceeds anything witnessed on the continents . |
| 4 | But most thanks are due to all those fellow hacks who provided ideas , anecdotes and scurrilous rumours for no greater reward than a kindly word and a half of best bitter . |
| 5 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 6 | I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels , but if I have no love my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell . |
| 7 | Their new roll-A-Perm takes a little longer than a general set but the results last up to eight weeks . |
| 8 | Fifth , it is a continuous or long term process rather than a one-shot exercise or a brief episode in the life of the school . |
| 9 | There was no impetus to develop anything more sophisticated than a spoken announcement or a separate piece of paper packed into the box . |
| 10 | As secretary of that organisation , I have to declare more than a personal interest but the presentation , during the Association 's annual dinner , held for the first time in the Debenture Holders Lounge at The All England Club , was clearly a most popular choice . |
| 11 | But that is what the arrangement was : an alliance rather than a consolidated interest or a genuinely shared culture . |
| 12 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 13 | There is flexibility in the system and , rather than a dogmatic attitude and a refusal to change , there is co-operation between parents and the school . |
| 14 | It was barely more than a flash impression and the man was turning and the light was n't at all good ; and besides , he pretty much resembled a pig anyway , so the effect was probably no more than a moment 's mistake . |
| 15 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 16 | I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person . |
| 17 | His nose was little more than a bloodied lump and the bruising around his left eye was so severe he could barely see out of it . |
| 18 | With no more than a curt nod and a : ‘ Come Phoebe ! ’ she hooked her arm through her sister 's and swept her from the kitchen . |
| 19 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 20 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 21 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 22 | The Germans had no idea who she was and the villagers from whom she had been begging food had not betrayed her ; she was allowed to go without suffering anything much worse than a slapped face and an hour 's sarcastic , sneering interrogation . |
| 23 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 24 | Colin McRae says that when the gear box is working properly , it should be better than a manual change because a driver can make mistakes . |
| 25 | Many data are collected regularly and routinely , particularly by government agencies , local authorities , etc. , so that , again , we have These observations are best thought of as a time series rather than a longitudinal study since the whole community of a country or region ( rather than a sample ) is generally involved . |
| 26 | Gertrude 's lush memoir might well be fanciful : what , after all , is more sentimentally alluring than a dead genius and an adolescent beach holiday ? |
| 27 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 28 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |
| 29 | Resort to such concepts as ‘ common sense ’ and ‘ knowledge of human nature ’ , is little more than a veiled admission that no satisfactory criteria have been found . |
| 30 | Scrounges — unofficial ways of resisting the uniformity of the beat — often meant little more than an illegal cigarette or a beer , forms of resistance accompanied by their own surreptitious rituals . |