Example sentences of "[noun] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 2 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 3 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 4 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 5 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 6 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 7 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 8 | It makes matters worse that the Secretary of State for Education and Science can not even understand that . |
| 9 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 10 | They stretched in great flocks wider than the whole of the Zoo . |
| 11 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 12 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 13 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 14 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 15 | Need a good scientist who say that last July went and discovered a planet larger than the earth in another solar system and now said , oh it was all a mistake ! |
| 16 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 17 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 18 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
| 19 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 20 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 21 | Cut the gripper strips about 40mm shorter than the width of the stair carpet so that edges wo n't show , and do the same for the underlay , which should fit from the end of each strip on the tread , over the nosing , up to the edge of the next strip on the riser . |
| 22 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
| 23 | The distance from bottle to anchor should be about 1ft deeper than the depth of water . |
| 24 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |
| 25 | THERE are n't many sounds worse than the squalling of a baby . |
| 26 | The 1991 figure is some 9% higher than the average for years 1981–85 . |
| 27 | So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ? |
| 28 | The diameter of a full stop ( period ) character in ordinary type is 0.06cm , so a ray of red light would have a wavelength 92000 times smaller than the diameter of a full stop . |
| 29 | Safety standards for future nuclear power stations should be set so that risks to the public are ten times smaller than the danger of a road accident , according to new proposals published by the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , the British industrial safety regulatory body . |
| 30 | And there are very few marginals that the Conservatives retained with a majority smaller than the drop in the number of people registered — only four , in fact : Coventry South West , Kensington , Edmonton , and Eltham . |