Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] an [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 4 | It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct . |
| 5 | By analogy with other Zechstein carbonate units , it is possible that an oolitic-barrier or reef complex also may have been deposited at the edge of the platform but no evidence of this has been reported so far . |
| 6 | AS SENIOR Civil Servants go , Nick Montagu , 45 and an Under-Secretary and principal establishments officer at the Department of Social Security , has one of the biggest burdens in the business on his shoulders . |
| 7 | Sir Charles Robinson considered him ignorant and an upstart and would not use his water , preferring to build his own reservoir at Newton . |
| 8 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 9 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 10 | A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable . |
| 11 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 12 | ‘ In Denmark we say that aquavit is strong as a Viking , fiery as a lover , cold as an iceberg and fresh as a virgin . |
| 13 | Judge Blofeld said : ‘ I am unhappy that an incident that requires a court hearing can not have one . ’ |
| 14 | Classroom interaction is even more complex than an interview because of the size of the group and the choices the teacher constantly makes about how to respond to what learners say . |
| 15 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 16 | Four thin , wooden gods watched the rotting dead , each made of twisted lengths of birch-branch , no thicker than an arm but twice Tallis 's height . |
| 17 | It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches . |
| 18 | Swimfeeders are plastic tubes from two to four inches long and an inch or so in diameter . |
| 19 | That the Thatcher Government was able to spin out the dispute into a second year was seen by many as an indication that teachers were somewhat irresponsible . |
| 20 | Free day-care provision was , and still is , seen by many as an incentive that would attract women away from their proper caring duties . |
| 21 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 22 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 23 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 24 | Delays need to be of more than an hour before compensation is paid out , and even then you need to have bought your ticket before knowing about the hold-up . |
| 25 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 26 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 27 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 28 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 29 | And , actually it was more than an hour and a half . |
| 30 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |