Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 3 | The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious . |
| 4 | The question of ‘ national styles ’ was one which greatly interested Panofsky whether a work of art was specifically Dutch , Italian and so forth . |
| 5 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
| 6 | The obvious dawned when a method of speeding the development time was spotted . |
| 7 | The language of Lord Reid quoted above and cited in Berry ( No. 2 ) was obiter and may be compared with a later passage where his lordship carefully left open whether an appellant as of right could raise matters unrelated to the certified question . |
| 8 | Play could also be abandoned today in the fifth one-day international after an agreement reached yesterday about what to do if there is crowd misbehaviour among the 25,000 sell-out crowd . |
| 9 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 10 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 11 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 12 | When she turned , there was no one , but she hurried on , though she no longer knew what she should do , what she should tell her sister , if she should report this request for an assignation somewhere more secret than a church , more private than a byre . |
| 13 | Nine people were reported killed and 27 injured when a tanker owned by British Petroleum collided with a cargo ship off the Belgian coast . |
| 14 | The only exception to this is that no one other than a state government or the Federal Government may operate a television or radio station without the approval of the president . |
| 15 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see why it should be any different if a person loses a brain function . ’ |
| 17 | Traffic was delayed and a short stretch of the A66 eastbound closed when a lorry tipped over in Cleveland yesterday . |
| 18 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 19 | It is suggested that this conclusion renders section 15 of the Act of 1968 otiose since a person who , by deception , persuades the owner to consent to part with his property will necessarily be guilty of theft within section 1 . |
| 20 | In Krawec ( 1984 ) , a case of careless driving where a death resulted , the Court of Appeal held that the proper basis for sentence is ‘ the quality of driving , the extent to which the appellant on the particular occasion fell below the standard of the reasonably competent driver ’ , to which ‘ the unforeseen and unexpected results of the carelessness ’ are not relevant . |