Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office . |
| 2 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 3 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 4 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 5 | But beyond that , Halifax emerges from these friendly pages as just the cold , compromising nobleman of legend . |
| 6 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 7 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 8 | It 's a shame that the word ‘ refined ’ has acquired prissy connotations because both the shop and the stock of London 's newest lingerie outlet is refined in the best possible sense of the word . |
| 9 | It was four hours before even the body could be removed . |
| 10 | For other plants where either the proportion of leaves to total biomass is not constant ( e.g. maize ) or the leaves are a smaller proportion of the biomass ( e.g. shrubs ) such a relationship may not exist . |
| 11 | The time for defence is then extended to four days after either the Crown gives notice to the court and to the plaintiff that it is satisfied with the information given , or the court decides that no further information is required . |
| 12 | In other figures where both the bust and the head are expanded in this exaggerated way , the neck clearly presented a problem : by nature a slender form , it must now be used to connect convincingly two abnormally heavy masses . |
| 13 | Such ‘ constant routines ’ remove all external rhythms since both the environment and the life-style of the individuals have been constant throughout the 24 hours . |
| 14 | Its wrong to draw similarities with other situations because here the manager wanted to keep him . |
| 15 | Thus , for example , in deciding to build a new school there will be other departments than just the education department involved . |