Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 400 tonnes of fresh and less than 2,000 tonnes of frozen cod , have been landed in the UK by Russian vessels so far this year . |
| 2 | Any child under 12 and less than five feet tall will have to belt up in the front or rear . |
| 3 | The equivalent figures for the trip to Manchester were eighty , forty-five and less than thirty hours . |
| 4 | Widespread protests across the country , and especially in the capital , Santa Domingo , had left at least 14 people dead , with dozens reported wounded and more than 1,000 protestors arrested . |
| 5 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 6 | Dougal shivered , partly because of the cold and partly because polite conversation was a bizarre activity for Lorton to choose . |
| 7 | His voice as cold and hard as polished steel , Michele said , ‘ It was you who suggested I could have her eating out of my hand … ’ |
| 8 | When set , it is claimed to be more crack-resistant and harder than normal concrete . |
| 9 | It is an ideal scenario , for after the initial heavy cost the spending gets less and less before full profitability is reached . |
| 10 | Further , there is very little evidence to suggest that R&D spillovers seriously undermine incentives to invest in R&D , partly because own and rivals ' R&D is often complementary and partly because many firms must invest in R&D in order to be able to benefit from spillovers . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking over this table ’ , Mr Frye observes , ‘ we can see that European fiction , during the last fifteen centuries , has steadily moved its center of gravity down the list ’ — so much so that , as has been remarked of The Hobbit , the co-existence of ‘ romance ’ characters like Thorin Oakenshield with ‘ ironic heroes ’ like Bilbo Baggins is immediately comic and only after many adventures rises to gravity . |
| 12 | For if Eliot 's debt to the French poets went beyond an easy charting of ‘ influences ’ , or the neat and better than neat adaptation of French lines ( for instance , from Laforgue ) into English , it could only have meant an elimination from poetry of any notion of ‘ message ’ . |
| 13 | Underneath , Luke Calder was as tough and hard as old nails . |
| 14 | Throughout , his banter came as thick and fast as softshelled crab , only halting as he paused to take a slurp from his Dixie Beer or to wipe the steam off the camera lens . |
| 15 | According to Government statistics unemployment in Darlington is 4,685 and more than 1,000 people have joined the dole queue since John Major became Prime Minister . ’ |
| 16 | This is a very large design , 180 squares wide and more than 250 squares high . |
| 17 | If you are female and less than one stone overweight . |
| 18 | SFV Holidays , based in Oxford , collapsed last week leaving debts of more than £1 million and more than 3,000 customers with no holiday and no refund because the company had no insurance . |
| 19 | There would be direct investment both inward and outward as different multinationals arrange their operations on a global basis instead of direct investment only in one direction resulting from the overall balance of the economy . |