Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 2 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 3 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 4 | It is clear that a reduction or increase in funding did not automatically lead to similar changes in each of the schools . |
| 5 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 6 | It is clear that a baby or a young person is able to grow anatomically and physiologically without hearing stories or reading books . |
| 7 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 8 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 9 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would be easier than a password if you need to check out changing the |
| 12 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 13 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 14 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 15 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 16 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 17 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 18 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
| 19 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 20 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 21 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 22 | To put the matter simply , it is not clear whether a firm that acts in compliance with the rules of its SRO may nonetheless find itself liable for breach of fiduciary obligation . |
| 23 | It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct . |
| 24 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 25 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 26 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 27 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 28 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 29 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 30 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |