Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
| 2 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 3 | Fats should contribute less than a third of the total energy in your diet . |
| 4 | He would have to pretend , however , that Carole was as keen as he was that Amaranth should have more than a fair crack of the whip . |
| 5 | Solar water heating may contribute one and a half percent to our total fuel saving requirement , which is very small in itself . |
| 6 | What 's more , we 'll need more than a fair share of luck . ’ |
| 7 | It 'll take more than a tender touch to help the victims of the oily sea . |
| 8 | But it 'll take more than a few bruises to soften him up . |
| 9 | He 'll get more than a short back and sides at this men-only beauty salon . |
| 10 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 11 | The tax treatment of unconditional deferred cash consideration may be disadvantageous to the vendors as capital gains tax may become payable before a deferred consideration is received . |
| 12 | normally we 'd eat that and a great big gateaux ! |
| 13 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 14 | He looked around and within a radius of twenty yards , both on his side of the street and over there on the far corner , he could see ten or a dozen little girls , each in a pale dirty dress and with hair in a dark , tangled mane . |
| 15 | ‘ It 'd take more than a few facts to convince Dudley Ford that he 's mistaken ! |
| 16 | Still , critics wonder how an institution next to the Museum of Natural History and a block away from New York 's Columbus Avenue could attract less than a third of the number of visitors who go every year to Norman Rockwell 's home in Stockbridge , Massachusetts . |
| 17 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 18 | About , you know , the horrible charges , and they were horribly badly charged , I mean , Lloyds Bank you reckon they could activate ten and a half percent in its first year to actually break even you know , because of the initial charges setting up fees , etcetera . |
| 19 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 20 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 21 | well the horse shoes you see , we used to we used to weld one and a half old horse shoes together in the fire to make one new one again . |
| 22 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
| 23 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 24 | Yeah , what would multiply twelve and a half by if you wanted |
| 25 | The next CODESA meeting was expected to take place in March ; it was agreed that the steering committee would meet monthly until a new constitution was in place . |
| 26 | As before , when she was on the Northern Line , she thought there must be some rule , some operating law , that would stop more than a limited , controlled number getting in . |
| 27 | It would take more than a sharp tongue to cut down Alexander Vass . |
| 28 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 29 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 30 | For a closer indication of the Authority 's priorities , we have therefore incorporated the length of each course and the number of participating teachers into an index of teacher-days : for example , a three-day course for eight teachers would involve twenty-four teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) , while a half-day course for seventeen teachers would involve eight and a half teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) . |