Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 2 | It 's always a bit sad when a door closes — it seems so final . |
| 3 | The use of the relay at this point may seem a bit odd as the switching could be electronically activated , but the use of a mechanical relay introduces a small but desirable time variation ( as well as possible bounce ! ) in the duration of the relays closure and so helps in enhancing the random operation of IC6 during the short time that the VCO is producing its high frequency output . |
| 4 | ‘ We were a bit shocked when the fire brigade arrived to cover it in foam . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 6 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 7 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 8 | ‘ He got a bit upset when the bowels did n't work and let me know it , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 10 | But ones a bit politer than the other that 's all . |
| 11 | My pleasure at the success of the operation turned a bit sour when the others calmly walked up the road and photographed the animal with standard lenses — and it did n't even bother getting up . |
| 12 | That 's a bit more than the others , so keep stumm about it . ’ |
| 13 | When Chelsea wanted a bit more than the £2.5million United offered for Andy Townsend , the club pulled out of the deal . |
| 14 | It takes a bit more than the tuppence for paper and string which contented the children in Mary Poppins to make one of these . |
| 15 | They changed that , so the money er it 's a bit different than the Maxwell , the money has n't been erm a switched over to the Cayman Islands and all over the place , it 's it 's stayed in , in the but of course we 're told by the trustees and by our legal advice that nothing illegal 's taken place , the money 's been used to st er finance early voluntary retirement etcetera , etcetera . |
| 16 | And now I am going to have to tell you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO , but this time it 's a bit different because the DOs and DON'Ts that I am going to give you may easily SAVE YOUR LIFE . |
| 17 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 18 | Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon . |
| 19 | ‘ Sixteen or Seventeen — I was a bit younger than the others . |
| 20 | Cos the fact that they only went down there , came back and were milling around waiting I would n't have been a bit surprised cos the car was a filthy old car . |
| 21 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 22 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 23 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 24 | So this example here we might find that that matches that matches we get a response of two from here and we get a response less than the response from here and the same response from this . |
| 25 | Is a computer better than a doctor ? |
| 26 | And there are very few marginals that the Conservatives retained with a majority smaller than the drop in the number of people registered — only four , in fact : Coventry South West , Kensington , Edmonton , and Eltham . |
| 27 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 28 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 29 | Yet it seemed more terrible , a horror greater than the Abigails ' marriage or the treatment of the Dasses by their son , greater even than the death of Stephen 's mother because Stephen 's mother had sought peace and at least had found it . |
| 30 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |