Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [conj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be very useful to know that there is a first-class industrial photographer in Tyneside or that such and such a photographer near the Exeter depot should not be used again . |
| 2 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |
| 3 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 4 | Her hand tipped the scoop and the chips slid into the scale and when the dial registered much more than half an ounce she did n't remove any but , taking a paper bag , she blew into it , then , tipping up the scale , she disposed of the coconut chips before saying , ‘ I 'll be with you in a moment . ’ |
| 5 | The SR-Gamma model reviewed here is much less than half the price of their current top models . |
| 6 | If the ‘ closed ’ style of management described above is already a problem in many schools , then there are a great many more where such a style might permeate the existing decision-making process once delegated budgets are in place . |
| 7 | Even in 1950 more than half the oil the world needed came from America . |
| 8 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 9 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |
| 10 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 11 | In the moth Diurnea fagella , for example , the wings of the female are lanceolate appendages , little more than half the length of those of the male and useless for flight . |
| 12 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 13 | The December turnout was only 3,700,000 , of 14,200,000 eligible voters , or little more than half the number who had voted in a referendum in May in favour of the establishment of the Assembly [ see p. 37450 ] . |
| 14 | It is more than two feet high , a very big vase for its time but little more than half the height of the grave-vase fig. 46 . |
| 15 | The numbers have increased dramatically recently : until 1977 fewer than 10 a year died but by 1988 it was 130 . |
| 16 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 17 | In 1939 less than half the population left home even for a single night in the year ; 3 yet during the course of the war there were 60 million changes of address in a civilian population of 38 million . |