Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 2 | This is the electro-acoustic version of the SW213 and retails for £20 more than the standard model . |
| 3 | For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving . |
| 4 | Filming nut cracking and other behaviour in the dark forest was difficult enough , but it was the inherently fast-moving activity of hunting that provided the real challenge . |
| 5 | It costs £400 less than the CIC Sigma and £146 less than the slightly lower specified Greenfield machine . |
| 6 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |
| 7 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 8 | Indeed in the first two months after opening the new Traverse made £10,000 more than the old venue 's income for the whole of the previous year . |
| 9 | Gilman Mr vice chairman could be the real reason … when building the East Stand the contract went to GMI who bid 2m more than the lowest bidder . |
| 10 | The findings indicated there was probably no major savings in efficiency to be made which would produce a commercial charge more than the present public authority cost . |
| 11 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
| 12 | Thirty percent more than the other party ? |
| 13 | Scots spend £7.40 a week on tobacco , more than 50pc more than the lowest region , the south-east of England , which spends just £4.50 . |
| 14 | The Marixx DS is priced at $18,000 ; $1,000 less than the comparable Sun box , the firm claims . |
| 15 | External bodies such as the National Council for Vocational Qualifications and the Health and Safety Executive are forcing through the increased professionalisation of the teaching and climbing and the rescuing of climbers . |
| 16 | That is £150 less than the current summer rates and £70 off last year 's prices . |
| 17 | However , viewed on the international stage the UK 's recent increases in R&D expenditure rose 8% , 2% more than the aggregate figure for British companies . |
| 18 | That was about £800,000 less than the original estimate of £4.5m. which officers felt was unacceptable . |
| 19 | Figures released by the Central Statistical Office yesterday showed that the current account was £1.4billion in the red in November , some £300million less than the revised deficit for October and the lowest since March . |
| 20 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 21 | I assumed that since the author was not black , the appearance of Africanist characters or narrative or idiom in a work could never be about anything other than the ‘ normal ’ , unracialised , illusory white world that provided the fictional backdrop . |
| 22 | He has played a lot more than the greasy git , scored more goals , made more important passes , lifted the team when we were down , need I go on ? |
| 23 | Choosing this road is likely to cost a lot more than the first option . |
| 24 | I think you 're suggesting that the local government would do a lot more if the national government would allow it , and I suspect you 're a Labour member of the Oxfordshire County Council and I think that you would point at the Conservative central government as being , if not deliberately anti-women , then the effect of some of it 's policies seemed to indicate that that 's where it 's heading . |
| 25 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 26 | And when in 1949 Wyndham Lewis completed his portrait of him , Eliot quietly paid Lewis £50 more than the agreed price . |
| 27 | In the above table all except the asterisked example would be legitimate planting spreads . |
| 28 | Cumberland , which claims its mortgage arrears are 45% less than the national average and made no mortgage loss whatsoever , provided £528,540 ( v £56,400 ) against loans , advances and guarantees in the year ended 31 March 1992 . |