Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 2 | Accordingly the accused is at present guilty if he negligently caused such injury . |
| 3 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 4 | They made our football players look a bit weak because of all the big shoulder pads and everything . |
| 5 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 6 | He argued that the National Curriculum had rendered such freedom unnecessary because there were fewer differences between syllabuses . |
| 7 | It 's blummin freezing and the pavements are a bit slippy so we have to walk careful like . |
| 8 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 9 | This low-risk group included subjects with a plasma ApoB level lower than 125mgdl -1 ( roughly the median level of ApoB in controls ) , those not undergoing treatment with hypo-lipidaemic drugs and those with a BMI 26kgm -2 ( the roughly median BMI in controls ) . |
| 10 | In Fig. 11–11 the median voter is constrained to vote for an output combination along 18 of the budget line 12 because otherwise the local authority would set tax rates that left the poorest citizens with a minimum income level lower than that regarded as acceptable ; i.e. they would set a tax greater than 19 . |
| 11 | Maybe a bit vengeful as well . |
| 12 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 13 | The girl was a bit depressed because neither of her brothers matched her bone marrow . |
| 14 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 15 | Of course , Joanna might get a bit depressed if very little farm work came along , but maybe Robert Sheldrake 's gloomy prediction would prove to be wrong . |
| 16 | I thought you were a bit depressed when you returned . ’ |
| 17 | Yes you do and , and also , another thing , and it 's , in a way it was a bit annoying because we 'd go on these like crash diets , you know , we 'd get really nasty and s well not nasty and skinny we 'd just get really skinny before we went cos you know we would n't eat anything except like fruit for a we , we 'd eat , we 'd go on a diet and then we would n't eat fruit for , would n't eat anything but fruit for the week before and so we 'd , you know we 'd like have flat stomachs and you feel , if you have n't eaten you feel thinner even if you 're not , it 's all , it 's a bit , it 's psychological is n't it ? |
| 18 | definitely look into that cos it could you know it it 'd be a bit annoying if I was five hundred pounds a thousand pounds short at the end of the day |
| 19 | Or rather it would be a bit dishonest if I did n't . |
| 20 | To ta just to make it look a bit respectable because it 's a church , they 're using that part of it . |
| 21 | ‘ Being a Pisces , I normally love rain , but this shirt 's a bit see-through when it 's wet . ’ |
| 22 | one , two , you just hold on a minute can you , just wait till Mark 's finished , cos it gets a bit confusing cos we get too many people knocking about . |
| 23 | Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills . |
| 24 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 25 | The CD databases such as Lotus One Source are more user friendly than on line databases and without the pressure of on line time costs it is easier to give careful consideration to the search strategy . |
| 26 | Policies have their conditions and we try to make them as user friendly as possible but if people do not read conditions it is difficult for us to say we will ignore those conditions . ’ |
| 27 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 28 | To tell you the truth I was a bit miffed when I found out , but now I 'm beginning to see it from their point of view . |
| 29 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 30 | ‘ If it looks a bit narrow when you splash on Pissarro |