Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitegates have knocked £6,000 off this larger than average semi in Access Road , Liverpool 12 . |
| 2 | A sandstone plaque depicting the Scottish Amicable crest was made for Scottish Amicable when Head Office moved to 78 St Vincent Street in 1852 . |
| 3 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 4 | Krabbe — among the favourites for the Olympic 100 metres and 200m titles in Barcelona this summer — was suspended with fellow-athletes Grit Breuer and Silke Moller after all three provided identical urine samples during training in South Africa . |
| 5 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 6 | Schools were expected to make sense of ideas which had not always been thought through fully , and to implement practices whose justification frequently consisted of little more than unsubstantiated assertion . |
| 7 | You can create quite a memorable set out of little more than good lighting . |
| 8 | Some items were of little more than symbolic significance , but others were more substantial . |
| 9 | The Low Attainers in Mathematics Project ( LAMP ) and the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project ( RAMP ) found that the mathematical diet for low-attaining pupils often consisted of little more than basic arithmetic presented in simple step by step learning sequences and repeated frequently . |
| 10 | It is often the case that the mathematical diet for these lower attaining pupils consists of little more than basic arithmetic , presented in simple step-by-step learning sequences , and repeated frequently . |
| 11 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 12 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 13 | There are stabs at the mysterious menace of ‘ Skin Deep ’ , the trashy pop wonder exemplified by tunes such as ‘ Nice In Nice ’ and the arty decadence of ‘ Golden Brown ’ — and they all sound like little more than well-executed pub rock . |
| 14 | Robinson begin by rattling off a handful of saccharine songs that sound like little more than fast-paced lift music . |
| 15 | After a few minutes , she was shown into that estimable if forbidding woman 's presence . |
| 16 | He left school with little more than basic education , then struggled to earn a living as a cattle mart dealer and haulage contractor before going into politics full time . |
| 17 | During the study two patients randomised to no chemotherapy were treated with 5-fluorouracil alone when symptomatic tumour progression occurred . |
| 18 | This would baffle her friends and her students who had the impression that she was engaged in some vast if imprecise enterprise . |
| 19 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 20 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 21 | But gradually his terror of metal stairways subsided to little more than ordinary fear . |
| 22 | Lou Reed 's lyrics amount to little more than self-indulgent nastiness , says Tony Parsons |
| 23 | However , the title of this paper restricts reference to developed countries only , but even here the normative suggestions about distortions to prices of factors and outputs ( leading to inappropriate signals to research institutions ) seem to amount to little more than wishful thinking . |
| 24 | Today , there are more good lines than bad , and the choice amounts to little more than personal preference . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you not come away thinking that the urban development challenge of the century adds to little more than opportunistic chaos — an architectural circus — with a sprinkling of postmodern gimmicks , the ghastly mega-lumps of Canary Wharf and a fairground train to get you there ? ’ |
| 26 | Elsewhere , local authority treatment could descend to little more than fashionable mediocrity . |
| 27 | On one level the sudden and unexpected friendship thrives on little more than mutual back-scratching . |
| 28 | Simplistic or casual analysis based on little more than common sense and drawing ‘ portfolio boxes ’ is obviously totally inadequate . |
| 29 | While the early Waltz-Caprices , composed when Reger was only 19 years of age and a student at the Wiesbaden Conservatory , are evidently modelled on the numerous dance sets by Brahms ( yet another of the composer 's musical heroes ) , they amount to much more than blatant pastiche . |
| 30 | Repeated trials in patients with bleeding varices confirmed that the complications of medical management were related to recurrent bleeding whereas surgical treatment was followed by liver failure and encephalopathy . |