Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because it was easier than a bra and panties she had donned an ivory , gossamer-light teddy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy . |
| 13 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 14 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 17 | Flight appreciably heavier than a gull but less so than a buzzard , and remarkably agile when chasing other birds ; will pursue even Gannets . |
| 18 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 19 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 20 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 21 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 22 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 23 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 24 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 25 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 26 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 27 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 28 | ‘ She was as straight as a die and a pillar of the community . |
| 29 | His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun . |
| 30 | A loose stone under a bed-leg ( I test to find , -10 penalty if not a follower of Sigmar , +20 if a Cleric or Initiate of Sigmar ) can be prised up , to locate a hollow space in which the Cleric hid a note stuffed inside a small copper jar . |