Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , that is not possible where an order is placed by telephone .
2 The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic .
3 The figure of 2 km assumed here for the area of interest further north is therefore more likely to be an over than an underestimate .
4 The do be construction does not correspond in any simple way to standard English forms of BE ( as is clear if an attempt is made to ‘ translate ’ the second example ) , but encodes aspectual distinctions which are not always syntactically marked in standard English ( Kallen 1986 ; J. Harris 1984 ) .
5 Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door .
6 A relative clause counts as dependent whereas an adjective modifying a noun clearly does not .
7 The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
8 It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct .
9 At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal .
10 It only becomes conspicuous after an attack has started , and never provokes that attack .
11 as glossy as an aubergine ,
12 ( For the same reason , French as an option within the Postgraduate Certificate continued to recruit well throughout the seventies ) .
13 They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) .
14 No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’
15 As high as an elephant 's eye ?
16 And the palm 's high as an elephant 's eye and everything 's growing right up to the sky .
17 In his gripping TV drama about Anthony Blunt : ‘ A Question of Attribution ’ he described the painting thus : ‘ The apostles , oblivious to all considerations but those of perspective , are fast asleep on ground as bare and brown as an end of the season goal mouth , this sleep signifying indifference .
18 We have already mentioned two factors that make the entire structure more progressive than an examination of income tax alone would suggest .
19 Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) .
20 Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published .
21 His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts .
22 Endowment policies are not always appropriately matched to the client and sometimes a low-cost endowment would suffice instead of a full endowment policy , or a term insurance policy would be more appropriate than an endowment .
23 Some people tend to overuse it and/or use it for concepts too complicated for this medium i.e. where a proper report or formal memo or even a meeting would be more appropriate than an e-mail message .
24 It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made .
25 That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual .
26 Ordinary bequests were not payable if an estate was indebted and dispositions in the form of trusts were also invalid .
27 However , it can be dangerous when an artist becomes very established .
28 An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid .
29 The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life .
30 Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather .
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