Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use a bit no larger than the original hole |
| 2 | You , you can get a toy the same as the Fat Controller there . |
| 3 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 4 | It 's it 's not worth a marriage no more because the C S A and because of people like them sat there that think they know it all . |
| 5 | We were sitting watchin' the news , the world 's in a mess The poor and the hungry , a world of distress Herpes , Aids , the Middle East at full throttle Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle . |
| 6 | two cars in a circle a black and a red one |
| 7 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 8 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 9 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |
| 10 | ‘ Is a fiddle the same as a violin ? ’ she whispered . |
| 11 | It is also very preparation for climbing , since balance and swing are crucial , especially when you have to swing up six feet and balance on a ledge no wider than a fingernail … . and as for amateur dramatics — you should see some of our training sessions ! |
| 12 | This attractive picture relates the strange BL Lac objects to quasars in a straightforward way , and offers the exciting possibility of looking , in a BL Lac object , deep into the heart of a quasar — possibly down to the central powerhouse where a quasar produces as much power as hundreds of galaxies in a space no larger than the Solar system ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 364 ) . |
| 13 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 14 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 15 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 16 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 17 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 18 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |