Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 2 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 3 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 4 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 5 | But it was surely unlikely that he had talked over the idea with someone who was little better than a stranger . |
| 6 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 7 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 8 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 9 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 10 | In a unique trial comparing a non-elemental tube fed diet with steroids , Lochs et al suggested that a peptide based diet was less effective than a combination of methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine in treating active Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 12 | He specifically disagreed with Diplock LJ 's judgment in Gledhow quoted above and he particularly said that there was no such thing in this area of law as a contract which was void or invalid ab initio because an unreasonable restraint was only unenforceable if a party attempted to enforce it . |
| 13 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 14 | and I was better qualified than a lot of guys in my class and yet they left college and got a job right away ! |
| 15 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 16 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 17 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 18 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 19 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 20 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 21 | His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers . |
| 22 | One may doubt whether this was ever more than a schoolboy game . |
| 23 | John was always displeased when a Girl became engaged . |
| 24 | There was always more than a hint , of course , that the real source of anxiety was that the bicycle might be enlarging the freedom of women in undesirable directions , because both in terms of class and sex the bicycle was a great leveller . |
| 25 | It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van halfway along . |
| 26 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 27 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 28 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 29 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 30 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |