Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many units would remain intact when a criminal hurled a house brick at the glass ? |
| 2 | If something goes wrong while a user is accessing LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a ‘ Transaction Failure ’ page which describes the fault and tells the user what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 3 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 4 | For piaget , cognitive development consists of a series of stages in which these two processes advance asymmetrically , but with the mature phase of what he called ‘ operational thought ’ only becoming possible when a balance or equilibrium has been achieved between them . |
| 5 | Just a mulch of flesh frozen solid as a rock . ’ |
| 6 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 7 | This is deemed unethical until a product is licensed . |
| 8 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 9 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 10 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 11 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 12 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 13 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 14 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 15 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 16 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 17 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 18 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 19 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 20 | Wearing — always — dead simple casual clothes that flatter his lightly-tanned complexion , pale silver hair and famous aquamarine eyes , he dines on spartan , spiceless fare in his minimalist palazzo on Via Borgonuovo , where blank corridors link white-walled offices with the plain , pictureless apartment where he lives alone while a bodyguard sleeps below . |
| 21 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 22 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 23 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 24 | The town seemed deserted until a postman appeared and willingly explained that the only Germans there were Gestapo and a few businessmen . |
| 25 | This is due to the pheromone effect created by a male presence and the ability of the male to detect sub-oestrus where a human could not . |
| 26 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 27 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 28 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
| 29 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 30 | Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting . |