Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If something goes wrong while a user is accessing LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a ‘ Transaction Failure ’ page which describes the fault and tells the user what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 2 | A line of 60 characters printed on a typewriter looks OK but a 6″ line of type set at 10pt is virtually unreadable , simply because the eye gets bored and stops short of the end . |
| 3 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 5 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 6 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 7 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 8 | Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back . |
| 9 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 10 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 11 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 12 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 13 | Wearing — always — dead simple casual clothes that flatter his lightly-tanned complexion , pale silver hair and famous aquamarine eyes , he dines on spartan , spiceless fare in his minimalist palazzo on Via Borgonuovo , where blank corridors link white-walled offices with the plain , pictureless apartment where he lives alone while a bodyguard sleeps below . |
| 14 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 15 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 16 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 17 | The average chocoholic eats twelve and a half , 60-gram bars a week — three times more than is usual . |
| 18 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 19 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 20 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 21 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 22 | After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected . |
| 23 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 24 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 25 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 26 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 27 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 28 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 29 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |