Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel , of 16 feet diameter , and most of the machinery is still intact although apparently in a poor state of repair . |
| 2 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 3 | Alexander the Great also found Greek culture valuable if only as a way of patronizing his Macedonian peers : he remarked to a Greek fellow-feaster ( Plutarch Alex . |
| 4 | Another audio item which need take up little room is an extension microphone — useful if only as a means of eliminating the pick-up of camcorder operating noise in quiet conditions if this happens to be a weakness of your machine . |
| 5 | I think tranquillizers can be useful as well for a very short time limited period . |
| 6 | In the Tver guberniia conditions in 1926 were as good as anywhere outside a few industrial regions . |
| 7 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 8 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 9 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 10 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 11 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 12 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 13 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 14 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 15 | Harriet asked silently and was as far as ever from an answer . |
| 16 | It was almost a relief when the door opposite suddenly opened and Ettore Di Leonardo appeared , immaculate as ever in a dark suit and sober tie . |
| 17 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 18 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 19 | The ventral arm plates are much wider than long with an obtuse proximal angle and a straight distal edge rounded at the corners and indented midradially . |
| 20 | But he was there waiting and looked more handsome than ever in a grey suit with a white shirt . |
| 21 | The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans . |
| 22 | Well I do n't think they 'll like this one little bit will they , I mean the players are out there practising at the moment , they look very smart as well in an all blue tracksuit erm and erm obviously a club colour and they look very smart indeed , er but er the journalists do n't like it and I do n't think the players will like it very much either . |