Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 3 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 4 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 5 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 6 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 7 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 8 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 9 | They are agreeably surprised if a child shows a grasp of a phenomenon , such as how a machine works , which they themselves have only recently mastered . |
| 10 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 11 | The body 's digestive processes are less efficient when a person is lying down and indigestion may result . |
| 12 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 13 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 14 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 15 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 16 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 17 | I am not sure whether a statement on yesterday 's meeting would be appropriate , but I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's request to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 18 | I am not sure whether a wheel clamp would be particularly attractive to owners in inclement weather , but does my hon. Friend agree that , if a device is visible , inside or outside a car , it acts as a valuable deterrent ? |
| 19 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 20 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 21 | At least know your gestation times so that you are not surprised when a mating at some forgotten date actually produces a calf ! |
| 22 | Doctors are not infallible when a child 's peace and happiness are at stake . |
| 23 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems to me that you 're more dangerous than a jungle full of tigers . ’ |
| 25 | Even if you 're as good as a master they still wo n't give you the top black |
| 26 | I know they 're as good as a house almost . |
| 27 | You 're as snug as a bug in a rug here , Myles . |
| 28 | In some areas you 're as blinkered as a donkey . |
| 29 | You 've the body of an angel holding out the lure of forbidden fruit , yet you 're as insubstantial as a nymph who flits through the mountain streams . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Travis put in casually , ‘ you 're as tense as a bow-string . ’ |