Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A physical description was easier than an emotional assessment . |
| 2 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 3 | Not very much is known about Lloyds so it 's somewhat more mystical than an ordinary club . |
| 4 | That exhibition has now moved on , and the floor will remain empty until an Isozaki travelling show opens in November 1993 . |
| 5 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 6 | Interest rates had risen in recent months as high as an annualized rate of 1,200 per cent as banks struggled to retain their funds , and the move initially froze the savings of thousands of Argentinians and also affected major corporations . |
| 7 | To my unadapted eyes the scene looked as bleached-out as an over-exposed snapshot . |
| 8 | As Derby bade farewell to one striker , they missed out on another when an ambitious move to bring a Colombian World Cup winger to the Baseball Ground fell through . |
| 9 | Persons of rank hardly needed anything as manifest as an active involvement in lay preaching on the part of the poor to resent the impropriety of an assertion of spiritual equality . |
| 10 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , it is less common for a woman to join a rural than an urban trade union and women who do participate are not so conscious of their exploitation at work and in the home . |
| 12 | This is not an option for having more of an emotional than an intellectual life , but of being wholly for God . |
| 13 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 14 | Enriched uranium or plutonium in the wrong hands could be infinitely more dangerous than an oil-rig fire or a coal mine disaster . |
| 15 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 16 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 17 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 18 | A little more serious than an expired tax disc , I think you 'll agree . ’ |
| 19 | And twice as impossible while an insistent question , as tormenting as any nightmare , began to beat at his brain . |
| 20 | Lori Garbacz was not quite so fortunate when an open window slammed shut on her hands breaking two of her fingers . |
| 21 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 22 | Once again the tip-toe manoeuvre — but this time it 's not quite an apology so much as an unsuccessful account . |
| 23 | As for covering up the work , Crack Wars nees that about as much as an Egyptian mummy needs a paper bag over its head . |
| 24 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 25 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 26 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 27 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 28 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 29 | Accordingly a minimum of £5 will be preferred in the present work , not so much as an arbitrary demarcation , but rather as one which should prompt us to seek further evidence to confirm the holder 's status . |
| 30 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |