Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 2 | Of the available competition , Mravinsky ‘ live ’ in 1976 is pretty hard to beat , but the new version has much better sound and a comparably strong performance . |
| 3 | Conner has only one boat and a £7 million budget . |
| 4 | ‘ The Andy Warhol of Spain … who thinks a Camel cigarette packet has as much value as a Picasso ’ , an artist who reckons to ‘ make cultural sandwiches for the brain ’ . |
| 5 | These vivid , compact displays require as much creativity and care , and can give as much pleasure as a formal garden . |
| 6 | Because of its ability to store and manipulate far more detail than a manual system , a computerised information system is usually capable of providing a much wider range and variety of analyses ; without it , certain information will simply not be produced . |
| 7 | Ever since the finance minister directed late last year that a big chunk of public-sector investment money be deployed in the Japanese stockmarket , the tactics of those managing these funds have grown increasingly heavy-handed . |
| 8 | Forty patients with advanced multiple sclerosis received either pure oxygen or a mixture of 10 per cent oxygen in nitrogen , for 90 minutes a day . |
| 9 | Jamie Marston , the youngest competitor , struggled hard to make headway in a leaking canoe borrowed from the host club while Peter Weeks showed much greater confidence than a year ago when he was the youngest sailor . |
| 10 | And during the campaign , Ashdown 's ceaseless inflating of coalition conditions made the insistence on PR seem more self-interested calculation than a principled policy for a more plural and representative political system . |
| 11 | ‘ Mister , I do n't know 'ow to thank you , honest I do n't , you 've got more human kindness than a bishop . |
| 12 | Your personal experience of relationships and interaction with others can be enhanced and built upon in a constructive way , thus helping to inspire both personal confidence and a learning environment where you will not be inhibited from admitting to a lack of knowledge or understanding . |
| 13 | Few things in life give as much pleasure as a well-tended garden . |
| 14 | This design of eye reveals far less detail than a camera eye . |
| 15 | This can be achieved by using both n-gram look-up and a lexical check . |
| 16 | Each manipulation drop should contain only one embryo and a fresh drop should be used for each injection to minimize any possible contamination due to label diffusing out of the injection pipette . |
| 17 | For these larger seedlings , we observed much greater reproducibility when a heat stimulus was applied to leaf 1 . |
| 18 | ‘ Hate to Love takes just one vowel-change and a shift of two consonants . |
| 19 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 20 | This requires both parallel processing and a system of constraint satisfaction , and connectionism offers a way of implementing such a system . |
| 21 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 22 | Precision of communication is important , more important than ever , in our era of hair-trigger balances , when a false , or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act |
| 23 | It requires even more time and a visit to a hypnotherapist until she can reclaim the knowledge that the abuse lasted for many years . |
| 24 | The fragmentary archives preserved in the temples at the time of their destruction imply minutely centralized control and a high degree of order . |
| 25 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 26 | A chip built with quiterons would need to lose far less heat than a conventional one , so the devices could be more closely packed on a chip . |
| 27 | Neither parliament nor the law was open , though these provided both soaring fame and a practical anchor for similarly gifted men . |
| 28 | You needed both good hearing and a strong voice . |
| 29 | Most library suppliers produce ‘ library editions ’ of fiction by buying up sets of book sheets from the publishers , adding double strength reinforcing and laminating the dust jackets on to their own boards — the end result having far greater durability than a publisher 's casing , and avoiding the need for binding after a couple of years ' use . |
| 30 | They could be emitting as much energy as a large power station . |