Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | The longer that a person is deprived of oxygen the bluer a person becomes . |
| 3 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 4 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |
| 5 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 6 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |
| 7 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hell , under all that gook on his eyelids , he was probably no blinder than a hawk . |
| 10 | A tiny black wallet no bigger than a child 's hand . |
| 11 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 12 | That evening in their room a low table no bigger than a music stool was set with food . |
| 13 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 14 | Under her left breast , whose pale skin was only just beginning to give up its bloom to death , was a tiny , dark-red blob , no bigger than a sand flea . |
| 15 | ‘ And so will her son , though he 's no bigger than a rabbit . ’ |
| 16 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 17 | In a garden no bigger than a pint pot , Bill moran proves that small can always be beautiful . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |
| 19 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 20 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 21 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 22 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 23 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 25 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 26 | It contained a silver box no bigger than a pocket calculator , cushioned in the centre of a layer of spongy foam . |
| 27 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 28 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 29 | Faith no bigger than a mustard seed . |
| 30 | Shuttling between stacks and players are ‘ intelibots ’ , battery-driven , wheeled robots no bigger than a shoe box . |