Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus , living proof that you CAN get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 4 | It was my duty to nurture and encourage only those with potential and he had about as much as a Mike Channon betting tip . |
| 5 | It is like a smiling girl , passing across a backdrop of clouds that are as mighty as a Bach chorale … ‘ |
| 6 | It had superb black markings as precise and perfect as a Bewick wood engraving running down its spine ; lighter , more downy plumage covered its chest . |
| 7 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 8 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 9 | He looked as clean and pretty as a Chelsea china figure . |
| 10 | And if that does n't sound better than a Paul Daniels tape , I 'll eat my copy of Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simons . |
| 11 | The front doors swung open like a piper at the gates of dawn and two of the biggest guys I 'd ever seen swaggered in wearing more black than a Valentine Dyall fan club dinner . |
| 12 | It would be potentially embarrassing if a JS competition was won by a JS employee . |
| 13 | ‘ It was as hectic as a Monday morning surgery , ’ said Trevor , back home in Sheffield . |
| 14 | The report , whose findings were presented by a US congressman , James Traficant , was described by many as a Pan Am smokescreen to avoid responsibility for poor security . |
| 15 | As infrequent as a Glasgow kiss ? |
| 16 | That , however , could be catered for with appropriate wording and we should then feel more confident when a UK aircraft crashed abroad . |
| 17 | on no more than a Terence Trent D'Arby morning |
| 18 | The heat had sprung up quite suddenly : the change from late winter to high summer — six months of European weather — was compressed into little more than a Delhi fortnight . |
| 19 | Some think this war is no more complicated than a Kansas City saloon brawl — that they can send the cavalry . ’ |
| 20 | But please leave out the 0–60 in 7.5 seconds , forget that it 's faster than a Ferrari Mondial from 50 to 70 m.p.h . |
| 21 | The New College book was chosen because it was one that had been donated to the College , no less than a Wykeham Professor , with others from his library for the use of future generations of scholars . |
| 22 | You will not be told how much he earns ; but you will be told that the reports of £1 million a year are exaggerated and distorted ( half that is nearer the mark ) ; you will be told , too , that in his fourth year at the Bar he was earning less than a Manchester bus driver — without overtime . |
| 23 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 24 | And yet he remains ever cheerful , as happy as a Redcar sandboy doing an impression of King Canute . |
| 25 | The film is as artificial as a Mozart opera or Goldoni play but behind the artifice lies a generous salute to love , life and theatrical illusion . |
| 26 | The Pomagne is as safe as a Trevor Brooking driving offence . |
| 27 | And I 'd come out of it looking sharper than a Connecticut Yankee at a 2 Live Crew concert . |
| 28 | Sarajevo airport was closed on Dec. 1 after a UN plane was hit by small-arms fire and remained closed for three weeks due to fighting . |
| 29 | Five Turkish sailors were killed and 18 were injured on Oct. 1 when a US aircraft carrier , the Saratoga , accidentally fired two missiles during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) exercise in the Aegean , one of which hit a Turkish destroyer , the Muavenet . |
| 30 | Suddenly , black movies became Malcolm X-rated and Richard Roundtree appeared , not as some hat-tipping descendant of Uncle Remus , but as Shaft , a dark avenger , unstoppable , sex-sharp , streetwise and as cool as a Harlem icebox in December . |