Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight years after her marriage to Robert Dudley , Amy Robsart , daughter of a Norfolk knighted gentleman , moved from Lincolnshire to Berkshire to take up the vast abode that her charming if rakish husband had provided for her . |
| 2 | I should like i if I may Mr Deputy Speaker , to commend Welsh billing authorities for their better than expected performance in collecting the council tax . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's , her eleventh as Prime Minister , was one of the very best - well-constructed , lucid , punchy and funny . |
| 4 | Sex with somebody other than present lover . |
| 5 | No-one 's suggesting the magazine returns to its dilute if all-encompassing format of several years ago ; what we will be doing however , at certain times of the year , is responding to our reader 's main requests and interests . |
| 6 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 7 | Even if a collapse into new forms of fascism is inherently unlikely in any western democracy , the massive extension of the power of the modern State over its citizens is in itself more than sufficient cause to develop the highest level possible of educated cynicism and critical awareness as the only protection against the marketed images of present-day and future claimants to political ‘ leadership ’ . |
| 8 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 9 | I soon established that the ‘ jabbering ’ they spoke of was none other than classical Greek , of which this portly figure had an exact command . |
| 10 | Since the Common Market annually produces such vast quantities of wine fit for nothing better than compulsory distillation , it is puzzling why the authorities still require producers of Coteaux Champenois to churn out as much as one or two pieces of this liquid for every marc pressed . |
| 11 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 12 | They are only likely to be resentful if they suspect that their parents are acting from nothing better than outraged respectability . |
| 13 | Simon used to tell people she was a Giorgione toned down by Gainsborough ; there is something lighter than pure Italian . |
| 14 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 15 | ‘ So long as you give me something better than bottom pudding I 'm willing to sit here till nightfall if need be . ’ |
| 16 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 17 | Thank God my self-consciousness is something nobler than vulgar conceit in having done something . |
| 18 | Actual bodily harm must mean something less than serious harm . |
| 19 | They find themselves , for the first time , able to contemplate the two main features of Labour policy , greater independence in the investigation of complaints and a London police authority , with something less than total horror . |
| 20 | That arrangement meant Brian McClair and Gary McAllister turned up to play for Scotland in something less than prime condition . |
| 21 | Naturally , that something less than attractive fringe also found its way to the beach house . |
| 22 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 23 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
| 24 | Now that he had moved nearer Fran could see that there was a muscle ticking along the hard line of his jaw and that his eyes were glittering with something more than mere mockery , and she went cold . |
| 25 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 26 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 27 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 28 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 30 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |