Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | Scotland 's normal practice in qualifying groups is to pick up points early on and then drop some later when a cushion has been inflated to break their fall . |
| 3 | Most were about 15 minutes late , some more than an hour . |
| 4 | ‘ Dreadful , ’ he replied , and warmed her heart some more when a hint of a smile touched his mouth , and he voiced , ‘ Allow me to tell you , Miss Kingsdale , that your interviewing technique is appalling . ’ |
| 5 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 6 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 7 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 8 | The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious . |
| 9 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 12 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 13 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
| 14 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 15 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 16 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 17 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 18 | The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year . |
| 19 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 20 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 21 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 22 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 23 | not much more than a year , but they 've . |
| 24 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 25 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 26 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 27 | Sport is seen by many black kids as much , much more than a hobby ; in the words of decathlete Fidelius Obukw , it is ‘ a way of finding yourself . |
| 28 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 29 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 30 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |