Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [subord] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedure is dual to that used when the objective function is parametrised . |
| 2 | Two Britons were among the 113 killed when the Thai jet hit a mountain north of Katmandu . |
| 3 | ‘ The reason the tyres were heated was this : when we cut out the piece of the loose tyre and welded it together it was –en smaller than the actual woodwork on the wheel . |
| 4 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 5 | Nor is this surprising when the actual cost of politics is remembered ; about $400 a year was needed to finance an effective local party , and this excluded registration or special campaigns . |
| 6 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 7 | One suspects that the language was no more beautiful in the German original than the English translation . |
| 8 | Half of the grains are coarser and half finer than the median diameter , whose size is most readily determined from the 50% line of the cumulative distribution curve . |
| 9 | There is also a polled Charolais , generally bred to be lighter boned than the traditional type , and some breeders used the Lincoln Red to introduce the polling factor . |
| 10 | Suggests a large long-legged gamebird and though mainly brown at rest shows a striking contrast in flight , with almost as much white as a flying Shelduck ( p. 51 ) . |
| 11 | This was in the early 30's when the economic war between England and the Republic was at its height and representatives of both governments happened to be attending the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa . |
| 12 | As much good as a fucking chocolate ashtray . |
| 13 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 14 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 15 | The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways . |
| 16 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 17 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
| 18 | But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux . |
| 19 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
| 20 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |
| 21 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 22 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 23 | Changes in content and style — ‘ news ’ was now moved to the front pages , there were briefer stories , news stories grew in importance as ‘ opinion and commentary ’ lost favour , different typographical styles were used to attract readers and make newspapers less severe — reflected much more than a mere process of ‘ modernization ’ . |
| 24 | For Hickey , however , the memoirs were evidently much more than a mere record of past events . |
| 25 | Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells . |
| 26 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 27 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
| 28 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 29 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 30 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |