Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 2 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 3 | This is possible where a target 's management are bargaining on behalf of their shareholders . |
| 4 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 5 | The problem can be very acute where a UK intermediate holding company holds shares in foreign companies , and dividends are paid to the foreign parent . |
| 6 | These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction . |
| 7 | Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms . |
| 8 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 9 | Sit at the back of a bluegrass concert in 80 of Kentucky 's 121 counties , and you will drink nothing more alcoholic than a tall glass of orange juice . |
| 10 | And you have some way of , of , of getting in , erm and you have some way of controlling access therefore into toilets , now I do n't know whether that would totally it , overcome the vandal system , but I mean if your saying a pass would n't be any different than a coin you could devise an entrance , so that it was n't , you know , so that what you would be doing is stopping having like the total open access all the time , you know , erm . |
| 11 | The Court ruled that , even if the agencies staff were instructed to print out what they deemed to be records , the electronic material are ‘ quantitatively different than a copy printed out in paper form and , therefore the Defendants ’ record keeping system violates ( the statute ) because it does not save all the information contained in these electronic records . ’ |
| 12 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 13 | It just makes it more interesting than a terrible pop song with a straight sequenced beat like a Kylie Minogue record . |
| 14 | It will give us that much longer to get to know one another and it will be much more interesting than a 12-hour flight . ’ |
| 15 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 16 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 17 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 18 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Betting is one of Britain 's top leisure activities , even more popular than a trip to the pub or eating out . |
| 21 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 22 | Luther held that it was " better to obey a prince doing wrong than a people doing right " , and he drew a sharp distinction between things spiritual and things temporal ; between the rules and values appropriate to the inner life of the soul and those appropriate to life in the fallen and sinful external world . |
| 23 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 24 | It was no more painful than a ring through a punk 's nose . |
| 25 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 26 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 27 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 28 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What could be more manly than a man holding a woman in his arms ? ’ |
| 30 | The Dover Harbour Board argued in the early 1980s that ferries would be both cheaper and more reliable than a fixed link , a stance later adopted by the Flexilink consortium of ferry companies in its attempts to convince Parliament that the Channel Tunnel would be a financial disaster . |