Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 32 | Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too . |
| 33 | Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out . |
| 34 | Savognia was exceptionally tall for an Italian and stood well above Ludovico . |
| 35 | The little maid is sedate as a judge and reminds me every day of her mother . |
| 36 | Of the structures actually perceivable in polymers one may consider the spherulite in a semi-crystalline polymer as being unsuitable as an RVE because the boundary is not included . |
| 37 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 38 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 39 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 40 | Goscinny had worked in America with Harvey Kurtzman of MAD fame : he had become dissatisfied as a draughtsman and chose to redirect his talents to story-telling . |
| 41 | The 600 's usual thinline profile ( body thickness of 1″ ) has been retained on the Atlantis , but the bridge is lower than is usual for a Rick and the pickups have been countersunk to accommodate a lower playing action across the body . |
| 42 | Impractical for a man cos he push his fingers through the |
| 43 | The other thing I mean to be healthy it 's more important to dry things and keep them dry for a while than to boil them . |
| 44 | The poll tax , then , will continue to hurt Labour for a decade after it has vanished . |
| 45 | The boys ' mother , Tracey Gardiner , 29 , and her five-month-old son , escaped unharmed after a neighbour and a passing mini-cab driver broke down the door and woke them up . |
| 46 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |
| 47 | Instead of having the machine score the various positions that could be reached after one play , it could generate and then evaluate all the positions possible after a play and a reply , or a play , a reply and a counter-reply . |
| 48 | A teacher has to be conscious of the different between an error and a slip . |
| 49 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 50 | The skull and beak could withstand enormous stresses during biting , far beyond anything conceivable for a leaf or nut-eater . |
| 51 | Next I began to worship actors like gods and I 'd go and see the same performance again and again , transported , until I learned that the actor , the one I had in mind , was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go . |
| 52 | At the heart of her case lies the claim that the merchant , like the monk , is not generous as a virtue but rather as a matter of " " calculated business policy " " , for the sake of appearing creditworthy : We may creaunce whil we have a name , But goldlees for to be , it is no game . |
| 53 | Their bodies lay crushed for an hour before they were dug out and it was too late to save them , rescuers said last night . |
| 54 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 55 | Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ? |
| 56 | Madame Mattli might be a stickler for detail , with a generous helping of the artistic temperament which kept her tight-coiled as a spring and which would explode into frenzy if the smallest detail was not as it should be , but she also had a kind face and deep perceptive eyes . |
| 57 | His face was grave for a moment and then , unexpectedly , he roared out a great shout of laughter |
| 58 | And also in there there 's like , there 's there 's the odd card saying swap your entire hand with somebody to the left or the right of you , or swap a card with the person on the left or the right of you , and that 's quite funny for a laugh as well . |
| 59 | Which is quite funny for a place that 's supposed to be a pizza , flying pizza service and they curry . |
| 60 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |