Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 2 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 3 | He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week . |
| 4 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 5 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 6 | See you 've got to get rid of all that because at the back of your mind you 're still saying , Well I 've spent a lot of money still only done part of the job . |
| 7 | The congress was attended by over 600 delegates representing some 80,000 party members , approximately 20,000 less than at the time of the 20th congress held in February 1991 [ see pp. 38008-09 ] . |
| 8 | Finally , the multimedia system would have an altogether different view , this time of a body of text embedded throughout with handles linking text segments to one another and to a range of externally stored texts , images , and recordings . |
| 9 | He hoped for positive outcomes , favourable , even : an increased share of the school 's capitation : a reallocation to rooms in closer proximity to one another and to the Craft Department ; improved storage facilities . |
| 10 | ‘ By ‘ exercising de facto administrative control ’ or ‘ exercising effective administrative control , ’ I understand exercising all the functions of a sovereign government , in maintaining law and order , instituting and maintaining courts of justice , adopting or imposing laws regulating the relations of the inhabitants of the territory to one another and to the government . |
| 11 | These plates are constantly in motion with respect to one another and to the Earth 's axis of rotation , and the motion of one plate influences the movement of others . |
| 12 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 13 | Furthermore , she has to turn the eggs regularly to prevent the membranes within them from adhering to one another or to the shell . |
| 14 | The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 . |
| 15 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 16 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 17 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
| 18 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
| 19 | And I ca n't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players . |
| 20 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |