Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 2 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 5 | Theorem 1.2.5 If a , b c ε Z are such that |
| 6 | They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed , including live radio coverage of the talks . |
| 7 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 8 | You 're never alone with Club 18–30 because a Clubrep is always nearby 24 hours a day . |
| 9 | Oh admittedly you would have been pig sick when a king would have , but even if the king had turned up you 'd have still got the , got a run and fifteen . |
| 10 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 11 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 12 | Strong attractive colours always appeal , and a bright red hatchback will probably sell for £200-£300 more than a dull beige one . |
| 13 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 14 | Jay gags , this is where love has brought me , rooting through the bins like a vagrant , looking for a sheet of high-gloss photographic paper and a bad profile shot of Lucy smaller than a postage stamp . |
| 15 | For Guinnessness and Irishness go hand in hand , or glass in hand , and mean a good deal more than an island of soft green hues and a drink that 's a subtle black and white . |
| 16 | For this reason , and because of the limited use for such general data-types , the only data-types smaller than a word which are at all commonly provided for in the instruction set are half-words , characters , and decimal digits . |
| 17 | Emergency services were called to the M four when a fifty kilogram container of calcium hypochloride split open during peak hour traffic . |
| 18 | No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order . |
| 19 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 20 | The most watched programme other than a soap was a repeat of Denis Norden 's The Worst Of It 'll Be Alright On The Night . |
| 21 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 22 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 23 | The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 25 | Further , it has been argued that there is no ‘ Asiatic mode of production ’ , so that the distinctive history of the Orient has to be explained in terms of influences other than a specific mode of production ; for instance , by the character and development of political or religious institutions . |
| 26 | So that fellow Smallholders can each exchange their Smallholding and responsibilities with like minded anywhere in the country for little expense other than a registration fee , cost of food and petrol to get there . |
| 27 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 28 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
| 29 | It 's always a bit sad when a door closes — it seems so final . |
| 30 | In exactly the same way , an atom such as a halogen atom in a covalent molecule can show spin-orbit coupling . |