Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus , living proof that you CAN get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter . |
| 2 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 3 | His head was probably tougher than a brass doorknob . |
| 4 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ There are ways of calming an aggressive drinker more acceptable than a head butt or kick between the legs . ’ |
| 6 | Although no-one brought anything back to be replaced , it can happen it just is n't funny if a trick lighter fails to squirt water after all . |
| 7 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 8 | Two video cameras were being used in the cabin when failures occurred in the flight-mode annunciator No 2 whilst a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was taxiing . |
| 9 | Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 10 | The coroner said it was n't clear whether a blood transfusion would have saved Mr Bain . |
| 11 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 12 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 13 | The kind and amount of pollution which come to light in these circumstances are only knowable after a routine sample has been taken and analysed in an agency laboratory . |
| 14 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 15 | ‘ That water … as exciting as a sludge pit in a sewage works . ’ |
| 16 | This obviously makes explicit what is generally true of performance indicators : that they are not usually generated from a systematic record ( and when they are , the system is not as reliable as a bookkeeping system can be ) . |
| 17 | Mondano was as deserted as a ghost town , wrapped in the silence of its siesta . |
| 18 | Mum , dad and the three children were sitting round the fire , cracking nuts and watching TV and the atmosphere inside was as clear as a spring dawn — not a puff of smoke to be seen . |
| 19 | I 've suggested the same myself but , compared to Bob Fitzsimmons , big Lennox is as British as a bacon sandwich . |
| 20 | Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’ |
| 21 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 22 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 23 | It always seems funny when a Rottweiler guards for the first time , barking loudly , usually backing off , not quite sure if he is doing the right thing . |
| 24 | It appears a smuggling plan went wrong when a lorry driver went on holiday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're as transparent as a plastic bag , ’ said Cassie , laughing at her . |
| 27 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 28 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 29 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
| 30 | If LIFESPAN does not find the QAO log file it will create another when a QAO log is actioned for the module . |