Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its use is greater than BSL or MCE ( children with severe learning disabilities are eight times as numerous as profoundly deaf children ) . |
| 2 | DIRTY and late trains made British Rail more unpopular than ever last year — with a record number of complaints . |
| 3 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 4 | Then he seemed to reach a decision , his night-dark eyes more compelling than ever as he looked back at her . |
| 5 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |
| 6 | I 'm pregnant and find my sexual feelings much stronger than before — I have to rub my clitoris at night . |
| 7 | Its qualifications for taming England supporters look from this distance more compelling than even Sardinia 's . |
| 8 | But though the churches are failing , religion is in some ways more powerful than ever , if by ‘ religion ’ we mean some way for people to make sense of their lives , and particularly suffering . |
| 9 | There were more hedges but fewer heaths ; in some parts less arable than ever before , in other parts more than ever before ; and the coming of the canals about the same time also introduced new varieties of birds to districts where they had previously never been known . |
| 10 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 11 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 12 | But if workmen are hammering outside your door , if the noise is intermittent and/or high-pitched , if you ca n't switch it off at will , you may find such noise psychologically distressing as well as distracting . |
| 13 | The second feature which makes personal conviction more necessary than ever is the tendency towards group thinking . |
| 14 | Act 5 scene 2 ) , the editor provides a second flute , making this moving arioso more Bach-like than ever . |
| 15 | Wednesday 's Breakfast Time brought another science story which , notwithstanding a clutch of talking heads that included Des Wilson of CLEAR , left viewers more confused than before . |
| 16 | Yet this begs the question of how policy initiatives should be assessed , given that they regularly embody flawed conceptualisations of urban crisis , were created in contentious circumstances and reflect spatial realisations of a political agenda as much as objectively circumscribed social problems . |
| 17 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 18 | Though the definition of infallibility was a good deal more circumscribed than often presented , Vatican I did what its promoters had asked of it . |
| 19 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 20 | Work is geared to making as many articles as possible as cheaply as possible . |
| 21 | We seemed to send many searchers away happy as well as laden . |
| 22 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 23 | Minton was obliged to register the jeep in his own name as Norman as yet had only a provisional licence . |
| 24 | Geoffrey Haynes , his red features as furious as ever , stood on the opposite side of the square with his hands in his raincoat pockets and glowering at anyone who had the temerity to walk in front of him . |
| 25 | In the first place , by the eighteenth century a hierarchy of diplomatic ranks more clear-cut than ever before had emerged , though this process was still incomplete . |
| 26 | The Conservatives won an overall majority of ninety , with the opposition split into three factions , but the Labour Party much stronger than either the Asquithian or the Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 27 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 28 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |