Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 2 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 3 | Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen . |
| 4 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 5 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 6 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 7 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 8 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 9 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
| 10 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 11 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 12 | Used on their own as a research method they have limitations but , within these , much can be achieved . |
| 13 | The government then developed a momentum of its own as a focus of loyalty that ran against the party system . |
| 14 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 15 | The plants featured , however , embrace nothing larger than a fly , so humans are quite safe . |
| 16 | oh another offer , hand cream , Neutragone , Neutragena do n't give you much as a sample , oh highly concentrated |
| 17 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 18 | Contacts between the revolutionary left and the rest of the underground continued , so who better than a designer who had worked for Oz ? |
| 19 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 20 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 21 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 22 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 23 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 24 | For Christmas Day there 's nothing better than a sparkler which will carry you through any first course . |
| 25 | ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’ |
| 26 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
| 27 | I adore children — and love nothing better than a house full of youngsters |
| 28 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |
| 29 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 30 | Something larger than a man . |