Example sentences of "a [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a smashing exhibition , that looked more like the charge in a one-dayer than the eighth of 15 available sessions in a Test . |
| 2 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 3 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 4 | For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 7 | She did not care a damn whether the information was protected or not . |
| 8 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 9 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 10 | This visit is as much a political as a practical gesture . |
| 11 | The monk , nun or vicar could , for example , be described as a more involved member than the old lady who attends Matins each Sunday ; she , in turn , is more involved than those who go to church only at Christmas and Easter ; and they are probably more committed than the sailor who , when he fills out C of E on a form , is more likely to be making a cultural than a religious statement . |
| 12 | More convincing is the idea of ‘ structured dependence ’ , which suggests that dependency in old age is more usually a social than a biological or individual creation . |
| 13 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 14 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 15 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 16 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 17 | Erm , it took , it took a week and a half before the fresh foods secretary even spoke to me when I went in this place to do the free appointment , nobody 's told me how I 'm doing , so then what 's the point of doing these things if nobody 's going give you anything , it 's just a waste of time ? |
| 18 | It felt rather like passing through a magic door in a James Bond movie or slipping into a speak-easy because the Cross Keys was a gringo hang-out par excellence , complete with long , oak-look bar and well-used dartboard . |
| 19 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 20 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 21 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 22 | Changes in money supply from this source are likely to be much greater under a fixed than a floating exchange rate . |
| 23 | And yet , it is said the Rochesters have been a violent than a quiet race in their time , perhaps though , that is the reason they rest tranq tranquilly in their graves now . |
| 24 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 25 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 26 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 27 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 28 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 29 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 30 | To the island inhabitants of Britain , such peoples remain distant ( though the English Channel constitutes now more a psychological than a physical barrier ) , with alien cultures , different interests , and different thought processes . |