Example sentences of "of [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 2 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 3 | The crucial distinction between the residual and the institutional model is that , in the latter , the state accepts responsibility for the provision of rather more than a basic minimum . |
| 4 | The prison population now stands at around 40,000 , which was that of England and Wales prior to the 1980s increase , against a total state population of rather more than half that of England and Wales . |
| 5 | Other medical advances were often the subject of rather more hesitation . |
| 6 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 7 | Preparations were set in hand for a major effort on the Left Bank on March 6th , for which a new Army Corps , the VI Reserve , was earmarked ( representing , in terms of manpower , an outlay of rather more than the reserves Falkenhayn had withheld in February ) . |
| 8 | I was n't surprised that my mother was silent on this subject — she acknowledged the existence of rather few people . |
| 9 | Clark and Unwin ( 1981 ) , in a study of 50 contiguous and rather remote parishes in rural Lincolnshire , found that 16 had no bus service at all and many others had a service that would not permit visits to towns of long enough duration to attend a variety of services . |
| 10 | However , others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state . |
| 11 | Any effort to increase their powers , most of all any suggestion that the Crown might once more become hereditary , at once aroused the most violent opposition . |
| 12 | Most excitingly of all some lesbians and gays with disabilities are beginning to organize through groups such as Gemma ( lesbians with and without disabilities ) , Gay Men 's Disabled Group and the Brothers and Sisters Gay Deaf Group , to fight back from within the lesbian and gay movements . |
| 13 | We would also like to see the constraints on major new out-of-town shopping centres listed in paragraph 37 applied to centres of less that 50,000 sq m . |
| 14 | ‘ Incremental ’ causes transfer of only that data which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since data of that same type was last transferred . |
| 15 | The MacDonalds box has a useful life of only several minutes , but languishes for decades in litter or landfill . |
| 16 | First , there is a conflict between a desire to maximize the fit obtained , by inclusion of as many statistically significant terms as possible , and simple logic which suggests that the correct form of any fitted model should be a linear weighted sum of only those land-cover types that actually contain mostly housing ( ’ dense ’ and ‘ resid ’ ) without any intercept term . |
| 17 | In the UK the AIB keep a very tight control over any CVR read-out since it represents a considerable intrusion on the privacy of the flight crew and , while they insist on using it whenever there is an accident , only the relevant extracts are made known to the public and the official reports contain transcriptions of only those sections which are necessary for a full understanding of the circumstances of the accident . |
| 18 | Size of adenoids affected the gains in mean hearing thresholds of only those children receiving adenoidectomy . |
| 19 | The two-thirds majority of only those who were present meant that the views of legates and those absent from the curia on business at the time of the death of a pope carried no weight in the election of a successor . |
| 20 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 21 | But , first , you can see the whole stage — and even today houses are being built with seats that have a view of only half the stage ! — and second , it is acoustically marvellous for the audience and the conductor ; for opera and for concerts , especially choral concerts . |
| 22 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 23 | Examples of this are nowadays quoted in most of the newspapers — the 25–30 year-old trader who is earning £200 000–£400 000 whilst the person who runs the whole department may be on a salary of only half this . |
| 24 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 25 | Closing a raft of useless federal establishments will get rid of only some 80,000 of them . |
| 26 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 27 | Devereux is open on this question , though he admits that we know of only some of the ‘ invisible and subtler forces that course through creation ’ and even those we are beginning to discover can occur in contexts with which we are unfamiliar . |
| 28 | These data show an age-related increase in the reported prevalence of only some of these symptoms . |
| 29 | Even Jean Monnet , the mover of much that was to occur in the future , saw Britain as the nucleus of a European Community . |
| 30 | Watched by encouragingly large crowds — a total of 57,684 , with over 13,000 on each of the first three days — this match was a reminder of much that is good about Test cricket . |