Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun] [conj] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was no impetus to develop anything more sophisticated than a spoken announcement or a separate piece of paper packed into the box . |
| 7 | But that is what the arrangement was : an alliance rather than a consolidated interest or a genuinely shared culture . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 14 | 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 ! ] |
| 15 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You see , it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have . |
| 22 | A high level of linguistic competence is obviously an advantage but a flair for friendship is more important than an impeccable accent or a perfect lexicon . |
| 23 | So I just do n't think that lots of money will give you anything other than an empty wallet and a sound that 's already there . |
| 24 | On other sites it is no more than an amused smile and a wave of the hand . |
| 25 | Enriched uranium or plutonium in the wrong hands could be infinitely more dangerous than an oil-rig fire or a coal mine disaster . |
| 26 | You must wait at that depth , within 0.5 metres , until a shallower depth or a new no-stop time is indicated . |
| 27 | If a sole trader or a partnership goes bankrupt the sole trader or partners respectively are fully liable for the debts of the business . |
| 28 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 29 | In English spelling , if a grammatical word and a lexical word sound the same , the grammatical word tends to have the shorter spelling. : e.g. for , four ; by , buy ; in , inn ; to , two ; I , eye ; etc . |
| 30 | At this stage , if an invalid date or a date later than the current date is entered , an error is reported and the date is requested again . |